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Title: Search for the Production of Dark Matter in Association with Top-Quark Pairs in the Single-Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $$\sqrt{s}$$ = 8 TeV

Abstract

A search is presented for particle dark matter produced in association with a pair of top quarks in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. This search requires the presence of one lepton, multiple jets, and large missing transverse energy. No excess of events is found above the SM expectation, and upper limits are derived on the production cross section. Interpreting the findings in the context of a scalar contact interaction between fermionic dark matter particles and top quarks, lower limits on the interaction scale are set. These limits are also interpreted in terms of the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections for the spin-independent scalar operator and they complement direct searches for dark matter particles in the low mass region.

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  1. Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI) (Armenia). et al.
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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
CMS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1212749
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-186-CMS; CERN-PH-EP-2015-087; CMS-B2G-14-004
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1504.03198; TRN: US1500636
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: 2015; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; hadron-hadron scattering; beyond standard model

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Khachatryan, V. Search for the Production of Dark Matter in Association with Top-Quark Pairs in the Single-Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2015)121.
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Khachatryan, V. Search for the Production of Dark Matter in Association with Top-Quark Pairs in the Single-Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2015)121
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Khachatryan, V. Wed . "Search for the Production of Dark Matter in Association with Top-Quark Pairs in the Single-Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2015)121. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1212749.
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@article{osti_1212749,
title = {Search for the Production of Dark Matter in Association with Top-Quark Pairs in the Single-Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV},
author = {Khachatryan, V.},
abstractNote = {A search is presented for particle dark matter produced in association with a pair of top quarks in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=8 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. This search requires the presence of one lepton, multiple jets, and large missing transverse energy. No excess of events is found above the SM expectation, and upper limits are derived on the production cross section. Interpreting the findings in the context of a scalar contact interaction between fermionic dark matter particles and top quarks, lower limits on the interaction scale are set. These limits are also interpreted in terms of the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections for the spin-independent scalar operator and they complement direct searches for dark matter particles in the low mass region.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP06(2015)121},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Dominant diagram contributing to the production of DM particles in association with top quarks at the LHC.
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