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SUMMARY:Search for Dark Matter Production in Association with Bottom Quarks
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Michael Kruskal\n\nPart of the PhD Final Oral Exams.\
	n\nDissertation Committee: Steve Ahlen\, John Butler\, Ed Kearns\, Michael 
	El-Batanouny\, Claudio Chamon\n\nAbstract:\nDespite making up over 80% of t
	he matter in the universe\, very little is known about dark matter.  Its on
	ly well-established property is that it interacts gravitationally\, but doe
	s not interact with ordinary matter through any of the other known forces. 
	 Specific details such as the number of dark matter particles\, their quant
	um properties\, their interactions\, and even their particle nature remain 
	unknowns that are only loosely constrained by experiments.  In this dissert
	ation I describe a novel search for dark matter with preferential couplings
	 to heavy quarks\, using proton-proton collisions at ATLAS with the Large H
	adron Collider.  With a model-independent framework\, comparisons are made 
	to results obtained from other dark matter searches\, and new limits are se
	t on the interaction cross-section.\n\n![Kruskal](/resources/event-image/14
	60/4593867_small)
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