Understanding the minutiae of the standard model with Dark Matter
Dr. Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)

Developments over the past year have demonstrated the power of the LHC to compliment and, in some cases, extend direct detection and galactic searches for dark matter. We present a series of new searches for dark matter that represents the culmination of these developments. In addition to an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity to dark matter, we demonstrate that these searches have lead to some of the most precise measurements of electroweak boson production to date. Finally, we explore the future of dark matter searches and present a new class of searches using hadronically decaying bosons. Can we make a definitive path to dark matter discovery?