Editing Dark matter (section)

=== Collider searches for dark matter ===
An alternative approach to the detection of dark matter particles in nature is to produce them in a laboratory. Experiments with the [[Large Hadron Collider]] (LHC) may be able to detect dark matter particles produced in collisions of the LHC [[proton]] beams. Because a dark matter particle should have negligible interactions with normal visible matter, it may be detected indirectly as (large amounts of) missing energy and momentum that escape the detectors, provided other (non-negligible) collision products are detected.<ref name="kane watson">{{cite journal |author1=Kane, G. |author2=Watson, S. |title=Dark Matter and LHC:. what is the Connection? |journal=Modern Physics Letters A |year=2008 |volume=23 |pages=2103–2123 |doi=10.1142/S0217732308028314 |bibcode=2008MPLA...23.2103K |arxiv=0807.2244 |issue=26|s2cid=119286980 }}</ref> Constraints on dark matter also exist from the [[Large Electron–Positron Collider|LEP]] experiment using a similar principle, but probing the interaction of dark matter particles with electrons rather than quarks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fox |first1=P. J. |last2=Harnik |first2=R. |last3=Kopp |first3=J. |last4=Tsai |first4=Y. |year=2011 |title=LEP Shines Light on Dark Matter |journal=Phys. Rev. D |volume=84 |issue=1 |page=014028 |arxiv=1103.0240 |bibcode=2011PhRvD..84a4028F |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.84.014028 |s2cid=119226535}}</ref> Any discovery from collider searches must be corroborated by discoveries in the indirect or direct detection sectors to prove that the particle discovered is, in fact, dark matter.