The first part of the thesis reports on the characterisation of MICROMEGAS prototypes in beam and laboratory tests. Detection efficiency, response multiplicity and detector gain dependency against environmental conditions are detailed. In the second part, the detection of a Z' gauge boson predicted by a Randal & Sundrum inspired model together with a dark matter candidate (nu') is investigated in the framework of the CLIC experiment. The considered channel involves a top quark pair emmiting the Z' which, in turn, decays into nu', anti-nu'.
