Theoretical and experimental techniques employed in dedicated searches for dark matter at hadron colliders are reviewed. Bounds from the 7 TeV and 8 TeV proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on dark matter interactions have been collected and the results interpreted. We review the current status of the Effective Field Theory picture of dark matter interactions with the Standard Model. Currently, LHC experiments have stronger bounds on operators leading to spin-dependent scattering than direct detection experiments, while direct detection probes are more constraining for spin-independent scattering for WIMP masses above a few GeV.
Dark matter interpretations of ATLAS searches for the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles in s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collisions