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Title: Search for dark matter in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV with missing transverse momentum and vector boson tagged jets

Abstract

A search is presented for an excess of events with large missing transverse momentum in association with at least one highly energetic jet, in a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The results are interpreted using a set of simplified models for the production of dark matter via a scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, or axial vector mediator. Additional sensitivity is achieved by tagging events consistent with the jets originating from a hadronically decaying vector boson. This search uses jet substructure techniques to identify hadronically decaying vector bosons in both Lorentz-boosted and resolved scenarios. This analysis yields improvements of 80% in terms of excluded signal cross sections with respect to the previous CMS analysis using the same data set. No significant excess with respect to the standard model expectation is observed and limits are placed on the parameter space of the simplified models. As a result, mediator masses between 80 and 400 GeV in the scalar and pseudoscalar models, and up to 1.5 TeV in the vector and axial vector models, are excluded.

Authors:
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  1. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan (Armenia). et al.
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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
CMS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1294447
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-16-309-CMS; CMS-EXO-12-055; CERN-EP-2016-178; arXiv:1607.05764
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; 1477207
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; dark matter; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Khachatryan, Vardan. Search for dark matter in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV with missing transverse momentum and vector boson tagged jets. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)083.
Khachatryan, Vardan. Search for dark matter in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV with missing transverse momentum and vector boson tagged jets. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)083
Khachatryan, Vardan. Fri . "Search for dark matter in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV with missing transverse momentum and vector boson tagged jets". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)083. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1294447.
@article{osti_1294447,
title = {Search for dark matter in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV with missing transverse momentum and vector boson tagged jets},
author = {Khachatryan, Vardan},
abstractNote = {A search is presented for an excess of events with large missing transverse momentum in association with at least one highly energetic jet, in a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The results are interpreted using a set of simplified models for the production of dark matter via a scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, or axial vector mediator. Additional sensitivity is achieved by tagging events consistent with the jets originating from a hadronically decaying vector boson. This search uses jet substructure techniques to identify hadronically decaying vector bosons in both Lorentz-boosted and resolved scenarios. This analysis yields improvements of 80% in terms of excluded signal cross sections with respect to the previous CMS analysis using the same data set. No significant excess with respect to the standard model expectation is observed and limits are placed on the parameter space of the simplified models. As a result, mediator masses between 80 and 400 GeV in the scalar and pseudoscalar models, and up to 1.5 TeV in the vector and axial vector models, are excluded.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP12(2016)083},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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