Search for dark QCD with emerging jets in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
- Yerevan Phys. Inst.
- Vienna, OAW
- Vienna, OAW; TU Vienna
- Antwerp U.
- Vrije U., Brussels
- Vrije U., Brussels; Gent U.
- Brussels U.
- Gent U.
- Louvain U.
- Rio de Janeiro, CBPF
- Rio de Janeiro, CBPF; Rio de Janeiro State U.
- Rio de Janeiro State U.
- Rio de Janeiro State U.; U. Campinas
- Rio de Janeiro State U.; Rio Grande do Sul U.
- Rio Grande do Sul U.
- ABC Federal U.
- Sofiya, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- Sofiya U.
- Tarapaca U.
- Beihang U.
- Tsinghua U., Beijing
- Tsinghua U., Beijing; Nanjing Normal U.; Iowa U.
- Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; UCAS, Beijing
- Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.
- Peking U.
- South China Normal U.
- SYSU, Guangzhou
- Hefei, CUST
- Nanjing Normal U.
- Fudan U.; Brussels U.
- Zhejiang U.
- Andes U., Bogota
- Antioquia U.
- Split Tech. U.
- Split U.
- Boskovic Inst., Zagreb
- Boskovic Inst., Zagreb; Unlisted
- Cyprus U.
- Charles U.
- San Francisco de Quito U.
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; Suez Canal U.; British U. in Egypt
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.
- Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; British U. in Egypt
- Fayoum U.
- NICPB, Tallinn
- Helsinki U.
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
- Lappeenranta U. Tech.
- IRFU, Saclay
- IRFU, Saclay; Purdue U.
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Strasbourg, IPHC; Haute Alsace U.
- Strasbourg, IPHC
- IP2I, Lyon
- IP2I, Lyon; Tsinghua U., Beijing
- GTU, Tbilisi
- GTU, Tbilisi; Unlisted
- Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- DESY
- DESY; Hamburg U.
- DESY; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- DESY; Brandenburg Tech. U.
- DESY; IAS, Julich; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- Hamburg U.
- KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP
- KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP; CERN
- KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP
- Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.
- Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.; CERN
- Athens U.
- Natl. Tech. U., Athens
- Ioannina U.
- Budapest, RMKI; U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.
- Budapest, RMKI
- Budapest, RMKI; Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- Budapest, RMKI; Eotvos U.
- Eotvos U.
- Eotvos U.; Budapest, RMKI
- U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.
- Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.
- EKU KRC, Gyongyos; Budapest, RMKI
- EKU KRC, Gyongyos
- Panjab U.
- Delhi U.
- Saha Inst.
- Saha Inst.; Visva Bharati U.
- Indian Inst. Tech., Madras
- Indian Inst. Tech., Madras; Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.
- TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP
- Tata Inst.
- Bhubaneswar, NISER; Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar
- Bhubaneswar, NISER
- Bhubaneswar, NISER; Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.
- IISER, Pune
- Isfahan Tech. U.; DESY
- Isfahan Tech. U.
- Isfahan Tech. U.; Sharif U. of Tech.
- IPM, Tehran
- IPM, Tehran; USTM, Behshahr
- IPM, Tehran; Isfahan Tech. U.
- University Coll., Dublin
- INFN, Bari
- Bari U.
- INFN, Bologna
- INFN, Bologna; ENEA, Bologna
- INFN, Catania
- INFN, Catania; Catania U.; Catania, CSFNSM
- INFN, Florence
- Frascati
- Frascati; Guglielmo Marconi U.
- INFN, Genoa
- INFN, Milan Bicocca
- INFN, Naples
- Naples U.
- CERN
- INFN, Padua
- Fermilab
- INFN, Pavia
- INFN, Perugia
- INFN, Perugia; Perugia U.
- Pisa U.
- INFN, Pisa
- Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore
- INFN, Rome
- INFN, Rome; Rome U.
- INFN, Turin
- Turin U.
- INFN, Trieste
- CHEP, Taegu
- Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.
- Chonnam Natl. U.
- Hanyang U.
- Korea U.
- Kyung Hee U.
- Sejong U.
- Seoul Natl. U.
- Seoul U.
- Yonsei U.
- Sungkyunkwan U.
- AUM, Kuwait
- Riga Tech. U.
- Unlisted
- Vilnius U.
- Malaya U.
- Sonora U.
- CINVESTAV, IPN
- CINVESTAV, IPN; Conacyt, Mexico
- Iberoamericana U.
- Puebla U., Inst. Fis.
- Montenegro U.
- Canterbury U.
- Quaid-i-Azam U.
- AGH-UST, Cracow
- NCBJ, Swierk
- Warsaw U.
- Warsaw U. of Tech.
- LIP, Lisbon
- Belgrade U.
- VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade
- Madrid, CIEMAT
- Madrid, Autonoma U.
- Oviedo U.
- Cantabria Inst. of Phys.
- Colombo U.
- Ruhuna U.
- CERN; Athens U.
- PSI, Villigen; Zurich U.
- PSI, Villigen
- Zurich, ETH
- Zurich U.; Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.
- Zurich U.
- Taiwan, Natl. Central U.; Annecy, LAPP
- Taiwan, Natl. Central U.
- Taiwan, Natl. Central U.; Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.
- Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.
- Chulalongkorn U.
- Cukurova U.
- Cukurova U.; Adiyaman U.
- Middle East Tech. U., Ankara
- Bogazici U.
- Bogazici U.; Marmara U.
- Bogazici U.; Kafkas U.
- Istanbul Tech. U.
- Istanbul Tech. U.; Hacettepe U.
- Istanbul U.; Erzincan U.
- Istanbul U.
- Yildiz Tech. U.; Adiyaman U.
- Yildiz Tech. U.
- Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv
- Kharkov, KIPT
- Bristol U.
- Bristol U.; Vrije U., Brussels
- Rutherford
- Rutherford; Southampton U.
- Imperial Coll., London
- Imperial Coll., London; Monash U.
- Imperial Coll., London; CERN
- Brunel U.
- Baylor U.
- Catholic U. America
- Alabama U.
- Boston U.
- Brown U.
- Brown U.; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.
- Brown U.; Bethel Coll.
- Brown U.; Karamanoglu Mehmetbey U., Karaman
- UC, Davis
- UCLA
- UC, Riverside
- UC, San Diego
- UC, Santa Barbara
- Caltech
- Carnegie Mellon U.
- Colorado U.
- Cornell U.
- Fermilab; Caltech
- Fermilab; Naval Academy, Annapolis
- Florida U.
- Florida State U.
- Florida Inst. Tech.
- Florida Inst. Tech.; Ain Shams U., Cairo
- Illinois U., Chicago
- Iowa U.
- Iowa U.; Bingöl U.
- Iowa U.; GTU, Tbilisi
- Iowa U.; Sinop U.
- Johns Hopkins U.
- Kansas U.
- Kansas U.; Bucharest, IFIN-HH
- Kansas State U.
- Maryland U.
- MIT
- Minnesota U.
- Mississippi U.
- Nebraska U.
- SUNY, Buffalo
- Northeastern U.
- Northwestern U.
- Notre Dame U.
- Notre Dame U.; Unlisted
- Ohio State U.
- Princeton U.
- Puerto Rico U., Mayaguez
- Purdue U.
- Purdue U., Calumet
- Rice U.
- Rochester U.
- Rochester U.; Unlisted
- Rockefeller U.
- Rutgers U., Piscataway
- Rutgers U., Piscataway; Brandenburg Tech. U.
- Tennessee U.
- Texas A-M
- Texas A-M; Texas A&M U. Qatar, Doha
- Texas A-M; CHEP, Taegu
- Texas Tech.
- Vanderbilt U.
- Virginia U.
- Wayne State U.
- Wisconsin U., Madison
- Unlisted; Antwerp U.
- Unlisted; Caltech
- Unlisted; Yerevan Phys. Inst.
- Unlisted; Northeastern U.
- Unlisted; Imperial Coll., London; Yerevan Phys. Inst.
- Unlisted; Tashkent, IYF
A search for “emerging jets” produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is performed using data collected by the CMS experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$$^{−1}$$. This search examines a hypothetical dark quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sector that couples to the standard model (SM) through a scalar mediator. The scalar mediator decays into an SM quark and a dark sector quark. As the dark sector quark showers and hadronizes, it produces long-lived dark mesons that subsequently decay into SM particles, resulting in a jet, known as an emerging jet, with multiple displaced vertices. This search looks for pair production of the scalar mediator at the LHC, which yields events with two SM jets and two emerging jets at leading order. The results are interpreted using two dark sector models with different flavor structures, and exclude mediator masses up to 1950 (1950) GeV for an unflavored (flavor-aligned) dark QCD model. The unflavored results surpass a previous search for emerging jets by setting the most stringent mediator mass exclusion limits to date, while the flavor-aligned results provide the first direct mediator mass exclusion limits to date.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
- Research Organization:
- Zurich U.; Bingöl U.; Unlisted; Turin U.; U. Debrecen, Inst. Phys.; Ioannina U.; USTM, Behshahr; Texas A-M; Baylor U.; AGH-UST, Cracow; Erzincan U.; Warsaw U. of Tech.; Sungkyunkwan U.; Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.; Hacettepe U.; IP2I, Lyon; Sofiya U.; Florida State U.; Quaid-i-Azam U.; Canterbury U.; Nebraska U.; Louvain U.; Florida Inst. Tech.; TIFR, Mumbai, DHEP; Yildiz Tech. U.; Seoul Natl. U.; Tsinghua U., Beijing; Adiyaman U.; Fayoum U.; Debrecen, Inst. Nucl. Res.; TU Vienna; Bhubaneswar, NISER; Kyung Hee U.; Johns Hopkins U.; Cairo, Acad. Sci. Res. Tech.; INFN, Pavia; Princeton U.; Alabama U.; Cukurova U.; Indian Inst. Tech., Madras; Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.; KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP; Annecy, LAPP; Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; Isfahan Tech. U.; KIT, Karlsruhe, EKP; MIT; INFN, Trieste; Vilnius U.; SYSU, Guangzhou; Texas A&M U. Qatar, Doha; Frascati; Monash U.; Istanbul U.; INFN, Pisa; Nanjing Normal U.; Seoul U.; Taiwan, Natl. Central U.; Helsinki U.; Hanyang U.; Carnegie Mellon U.; Middle East Tech. U., Ankara; Rutgers U., Piscataway; Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; UCLA; DESY; Tarapaca U.; Athens U.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Purdue U., Calumet; South China Normal U.; Kansas U.; Saha Inst.; Naples U.; Riga Tech. U.; ENEA, Bologna; Rutherford; Split Tech. U.; Illinois U., Chicago; Malaya U.; NICPB, Tallinn; Sharif U. of Tech.; Iberoamericana U.; Purdue U.; Oviedo U.; Bristol U.; Hamburg U.; Kansas State U.; Bari U.; Cyprus U.; INFN, Rome; Charles U.; Iowa U.; Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore; Sofiya, Inst. Nucl. Res.; Guglielmo Marconi U.; Rochester U.; Strasbourg, IPHC; Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.; Maryland U.; INFN, Milan Bicocca; UC, Riverside; Peking U.; Sinop U.; Pisa U.; Wisconsin U., Madison; INFN, Naples; Hefei, CUST; Chonnam Natl. U.; Yonsei U.; Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.; INFN, Turin; Yerevan Phys. Inst.; Aachen, Tech. Hochsch.; Colorado U.; Beihang U.; Split U.; ABC Federal U.; Gent U.; INFN, Genoa; Korea U.; Cornell U.; Visva Bharati U.; UC, San Diego; Catania U.; Rockefeller U.; Rio Grande do Sul U.; Zhejiang U.; INFN, Bologna; Texas Tech.; U. Campinas; IISER, Pune; Sejong U.; NCBJ, Swierk; Northeastern U.; Boskovic Inst., Zagreb; British U. in Egypt; LIP, Lisbon; VINCA Inst. Nucl. Sci., Belgrade; IPM, Tehran; Tennessee U.; INFN, Padua; Fudan U.; UCAS, Beijing; Lappeenranta U. Tech.; Natl. Tech. U., Athens; Ecole Polytechnique; Rice U.; Haute Alsace U.; EKU KRC, Gyongyos; PSI, Villigen; Brandenburg Tech. U.; Inst. Scintill. Mat., Kharkiv; Warsaw U.; Colombo U.; Ohio State U.; SUNY, Buffalo; Vanderbilt U.; INFN, Bari; Vienna, OAW; Belgrade U.; Puerto Rico U., Mayaguez; Boston U.; Antwerp U.; Conacyt, Mexico; Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar; San Francisco de Quito U.; Cantabria Inst. of Phys.; INFN, Perugia; Kafkas U.; Minnesota U.; Rio de Janeiro, CBPF; Delhi U.; Montenegro U.; GTU, Tbilisi; Kharkov, KIPT; Naval Academy, Annapolis; CHEP, Taegu; INFN, Catania; INFN, Florence; CINVESTAV, IPN; Mississippi U.; Ruhuna U.; Wayne State U.; Caltech; Virginia U.; Sonora U.; Tashkent, IYF; IRFU, Saclay; Catania, CSFNSM; UC, Davis; Vrije U., Brussels; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.; University Coll., Dublin; Southampton U.; Zurich, ETH; Karamanoglu Mehmetbey U., Karaman; Perugia U.; Madrid, CIEMAT; Bethel Coll.; Notre Dame U.; Antioquia U.; Bogazici U.; Brown U.; Florida U.; Chulalongkorn U.; Catholic U. America; Ain Shams U., Cairo; Bangalore, Indian Inst. Sci.; Istanbul Tech. U.; Puebla U., Inst. Fis.; Budapest, RMKI; UC, Santa Barbara; IAS, Julich; Panjab U.; Rome U.; Madrid, Autonoma U.; Brussels U.; Marmara U.; CERN; Andes U., Bogota; Rio de Janeiro State U.; Bucharest, IFIN-HH; AUM, Kuwait; Suez Canal U.; Eotvos U.; Imperial Coll., London; Tata Inst.; Northwestern U.; Brunel U.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; 89243024CSC000002
- OSTI ID:
- 2397234
- Report Number(s):
- CMS-EXO-22-015; CERN-EP-2024-049; FERMILAB-PUB-24-0334-CMS; oai:inspirehep.net:2765268; arXiv:2403.01556
- Journal Information:
- JHEP, Journal Name: JHEP Vol. 07
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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