Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC
Abstract
Dark matter that is electrically neutral but couples to the electromagnetic current through higher-dimensional operators constitutes an interesting class of models. We investigate this class of models at the Large Hadron Collider, focusing on the anapole moment operator in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, and utilizing the vector boson fusion (VBF) topology. Assuming proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, we present the VBF anapole dark matter (ADM) cross sections and kinematic distributions as functions of the free parameters of the EFT, the cutoff scale Λ and the ADM mass mχ. We find that the distinctive VBF topology of two forward jets and large dijet pseudorapidity gap is effective at reducing SM backgrounds, leading to a 5σ discovery reach for all kinematically allowed ADM masses with Λ ≤ 1.62 (1.1) TeV, assuming an integrated luminosity of 3000 (100) fb–1.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1545443
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1611269
- Grant/Contract Number:
- desc0009956; SC0009956
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Electroweak interaction; Particle dark matter; Particle decays; Particle interactions
Citation Formats
Flórez, Andrés, Gurrola, Alfredo, Johns, Will, Maruri, Jessica, Sheldon, Paul, Sinha, Kuver, and Starko, Savanna Rae. Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017.
Flórez, Andrés, Gurrola, Alfredo, Johns, Will, Maruri, Jessica, Sheldon, Paul, Sinha, Kuver, & Starko, Savanna Rae. Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017
Flórez, Andrés, Gurrola, Alfredo, Johns, Will, Maruri, Jessica, Sheldon, Paul, Sinha, Kuver, and Starko, Savanna Rae. Mon .
"Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017.
@article{osti_1545443,
title = {Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC},
author = {Flórez, Andrés and Gurrola, Alfredo and Johns, Will and Maruri, Jessica and Sheldon, Paul and Sinha, Kuver and Starko, Savanna Rae},
abstractNote = {Dark matter that is electrically neutral but couples to the electromagnetic current through higher-dimensional operators constitutes an interesting class of models. We investigate this class of models at the Large Hadron Collider, focusing on the anapole moment operator in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, and utilizing the vector boson fusion (VBF) topology. Assuming proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, we present the VBF anapole dark matter (ADM) cross sections and kinematic distributions as functions of the free parameters of the EFT, the cutoff scale Λ and the ADM mass mχ. We find that the distinctive VBF topology of two forward jets and large dijet pseudorapidity gap is effective at reducing SM backgrounds, leading to a 5σ discovery reach for all kinematically allowed ADM masses with Λ ≤ 1.62 (1.1) TeV, assuming an integrated luminosity of 3000 (100) fb–1.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 1,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Cited by: 3 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Search for supersymmetry in the vector-boson fusion topology in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
journal, November 2015
- Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 11
Vector boson fusion processes as a probe of supersymmetric electroweak sectors at the LHC
journal, February 2013
- Dutta, Bhaskar; Gurrola, Alfredo; Johns, Will
- Physical Review D, Vol. 87, Issue 3
Probing compressed bottom squarks with boosted jets and shape analysis
journal, November 2015
- Dutta, Bhaskar; Gurrola, Alfredo; Hatakeyama, Kenichi
- Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 9
Probing compressed top squark scenarios at the LHC at 14 TeV
journal, November 2014
- Dutta, Bhaskar; Flanagan, Will; Gurrola, Alfredo
- Physical Review D, Vol. 90, Issue 9
Simplified dark matter models with charged mediators: prospects for direct detection
journal, October 2016
- Sandick, Pearl; Sinha, Kuver; Teng, Fei
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 10
The dark penguin shines light at colliders
journal, July 2015
- Primulando, Reinard; Salvioni, Ennio; Tsai, Yuhsin
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 7
Light dark states with electromagnetic form factors
journal, January 2019
- Chu, Xiaoyong; Pradler, Josef; Semmelrock, Lukas
- Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 1
Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of τ leptons with the CMS detector
journal, April 2018
- Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 779
A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1
journal, June 2008
- Sjöstrand, Torbjörn; Mrenna, Stephen; Skands, Peter
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 178, Issue 11
Dark-matter electric and magnetic dipole moments
journal, October 2004
- Sigurdson, Kris; Doran, Michael; Kurylov, Andriy
- Physical Review D, Vol. 70, Issue 8
Electromagnetic properties of dark matter: Dipole moments and charge form factor
journal, January 2011
- Barger, Vernon; Keung, Wai-Yee; Marfatia, Danny
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 696, Issue 1-2
Mapping monojet constraints onto simplified dark matter models
journal, June 2015
- Jacques, Thomas; Nordström, Karl
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 6
PDF4LHC recommendations for LHC Run II
journal, January 2016
- Butterworth, Jon; Carrazza, Stefano; Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda
- Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 43, Issue 2
Erratum: Dark-matter electric and magnetic dipole moments [Phys. Rev. DPRVDAQ0556-2821 70 , 083501 (2004)10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083501]
journal, April 2006
- Sigurdson, Kris; Doran, Michael; Kurylov, Andriy
- Physical Review D, Vol. 73, Issue 8
DELPHES 3: a modular framework for fast simulation of a generic collider experiment
journal, February 2014
- de Favereau, J.; Delaere, C.; Demin, P.
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 2
FeynRules – Feynman rules made easy
journal, September 2009
- Christensen, Neil D.; Duhr, Claude
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 180, Issue 9
Experimental consequences and constraints for magninos
journal, August 1987
- Raby, Stuart; West, Geoffrey B.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 194, Issue 4
Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=8~$$ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
journal, July 2015
- Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.
- The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 7
Anapole dark matter at the LHC
journal, February 2014
- Gao, Yu; Ho, Chiu Man; Scherrer, Robert J.
- Physical Review D, Vol. 89, Issue 4
The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
journal, July 2014
- Alwall, J.; Frederix, R.; Frixione, S.
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 7
Expanding the reach of heavy neutrino searches at the LHC
journal, March 2018
- Flórez, Andrés; Gui, Kaiwen; Gurrola, Alfredo
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 778
Erratum to: Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=8~$$ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
journal, September 2015
- Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.
- The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 75, Issue 9
Collider constraints on dipole-interacting dark matter
journal, March 2012
- Fortin, Jean-François; Tait, Tim M. P.
- Physical Review D, Vol. 85, Issue 6
Loopy constraints on leptophilic dark matter and internal bremsstrahlung
journal, April 2014
- Kopp, Joachim; Michaels, Lisa; Smirnov, Juri
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 04
Searches for dark matter at the LHC: A multivariate analysis in the mono- channel
journal, December 2015
- Alves, Alexandre; Sinha, Kuver
- Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 11
Comparative study of various algorithms for the merging of parton showers and matrix elements in hadronic collisions
journal, December 2007
- Alwall, J.; Höche, S.; Krauss, F.
- The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 53, Issue 3
Probing compressed sleptons at the LHC using vector boson fusion processes
journal, March 2015
- Dutta, Bhaskar; Ghosh, Tathagata; Gurrola, Alfredo
- Physical Review D, Vol. 91, Issue 5
Search for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry with a Compressed Mass Spectrum in the Vector Boson Fusion Topology in Proton-Proton Collisions at
journal, January 2017
- Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 2
Collider detection of dark matter electromagnetic anapole moments
journal, March 2018
- Alves, Alexandre; Santos, A. C. O.; Sinha, Kuver
- Physical Review D, Vol. 97, Issue 5
Collider searches for dark matter in events with a boson and missing energy
journal, April 2013
- Carpenter, Linda M.; Nelson, Andrew; Shimmin, Chase
- Physical Review D, Vol. 87, Issue 7
Anapole dark matter
journal, May 2013
- Ho, Chiu Man; Scherrer, Robert J.
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 722, Issue 4-5
Probing Dark Matter at the LHC Using Vector Boson Fusion Processes
journal, August 2013
- Delannoy, Andres G.; Dutta, Bhaskar; Gurrola, Alfredo
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 6
Detection of galactic halo magninos via their coherent interaction with heavy nuclei
journal, January 1988
- Raby, Stuart; West, Geoffrey
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 200, Issue 4
Light dark matter anomalies after LUX
journal, January 2014
- Gresham, Moira I.; Zurek, Kathryn M.
- Physical Review D, Vol. 89, Issue 1
Dark moments and the DAMA-CoGeNT puzzle
journal, October 2010
- Fitzpatrick, A. Liam; Zurek, Kathryn M.
- Physical Review D, Vol. 82, Issue 7
Probing heavy spin-2 bosons with final states from vector boson fusion processes at the LHC
journal, February 2019
- Flórez, Andrés; Guo, Yuhan; Gurrola, Alfredo
- Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 3
Detecting technibaryon dark matter
journal, January 1994
- Bagnasco, John; Dine, Michael; Thomas, Scott
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 320, Issue 1-2
Accidental composite dark matter
journal, July 2015
- Antipin, Oleg; Redi, Michele; Strumia, Alessandro
- Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 7
Searching for new heavy neutral gauge bosons using vector boson fusion processes at the LHC
journal, April 2017
- Flórez, Andrés; Gurrola, Alfredo; Johns, Will
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 767
On the validity of the effective field theory for dark matter searches at the LHC, part II: complete analysis for the s-channel
journal, June 2014
- Busoni, Giorgio; De Simone, Andrea; Gramling, Johanna
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 06
Direct and indirect limits on the electro-magnetic form factors of WIMPs
journal, May 2000
- Pospelov, Maxim; ter Veldhuis, Tonnis
- Physics Letters B, Vol. 480, Issue 1-2