Search for new phenomena in events with a highly energetic jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

This thesis present the search for new phenomena in events with a highly energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum at ATLAS with data collected in Run 2 during 2015 and 2016 corresponding to 36.1 fb-1. This search, also referred to as 'monojet search' exhibits a unique sensitivity to BSM models predicting heavy particles that may escape the detector untraced. If an object, such as a jet, recoils against these particles a monojet signature is produced. The search exploits the discrimination power of the E_{T}^{miss} spectrum between background and BSM signals. The E_{T}^{miss} spectrum is fitted in 10 bins in four orthogonal control regions simultaneously to estimate the background contribution in the signal region and determine the probability of various signal hypothesis from the observed data distribution. The fit model relies on state of the art theory predictions concerning NLO QCD and nNLO EW corrections to the major V+jets backgrounds and uses as well data driven techniques. Therefore, the precision of the background determination could be largely improved resulting in strong limits on the production of dark matter, supersymmetric particles in compressed scenarios and gravitons in ADD extra dimension models that were set in the absence of a significant excess in data. All shown limits exceed former results within ATLAS significantly.