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Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Higgs Boson Decaying into $W^\pm W^\mp$ or ZZ in Fully Hadronic Final States from √s=13 TeV pp Collisions Recorded with the ATLAS Detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 126, no. 12
Publication date2021
First online date2021-03-26
Abstract

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the production of dark matter particles at the LHC. An uncharted signature of dark matter particles produced in association with VV=W^{±}W^{∓} or ZZ pairs from a decay of a dark Higgs boson s is searched for using 139  fb^{-1} of pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The s→V(qq[over ¯])V(qq[over ¯]) decays are reconstructed with a novel technique aimed at resolving the dense topology from boosted VV pairs using jets in the calorimeter and tracking information. Dark Higgs scenarios with m_{s}>160  GeV are excluded.

Keywords
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • P p: scattering
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • Dark matter: associated production
  • Dark matter: signature
  • Higgs particle: decay modes
  • W: pair production
  • Z0: pair production
  • W: hadronic decay
  • Z0: hadronic decay
  • Final state: hadronic
  • Final state: ((n)jet)
  • Hidden sector
  • ATLAS
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Calorimeter
  • Topology
  • Channel cross section: upper limit
  • Higgs particle: mass: lower limit
  • Statistical analysis: frequentist
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S030DMP
  • S056ZOT
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Higgs Boson Decaying into $W^\pm W^\mp$ or ZZ in Fully Hadronic Final States from √s=13 TeV pp Collisions Recorded with the ATLAS Detector. In: Physical review letters, 2021, vol. 126, n° 12. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.121802
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