Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Γγ or τ⁺τ⁻ at √s = 13 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Date Issued
September 2018
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Nature
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Higgs Boson Decaying to Γγ or τ⁺τ⁻ at √s = 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 9 (September 2018): 46 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search for dark matter particles is performed by looking for events with large transverse momentum imbalance and a recoiling Higgs boson decaying to either a pair of photons or a pair of τ leptons. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected at the CERN LHC in 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. No significant excess over the expected standard model background is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are presented for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction in the context of two benchmark simplified models. For the Z′-two-Higgs-doublet model (where Z′is a new massive boson mediator) with an intermediate heavy pseudoscalar particle of mass mA= 300 GeV and mDM= 100 GeV, the Z′masses from 550 GeV to 1265 GeV are excluded. For a baryonic Z′model, with mDM= 1 GeV, Z′masses up to 615 GeV are excluded. Results are also presented for the spin-independent cross section for the dark matter-nucleon interaction as a function of the mass of the dark matter particle. This is the first search for dark matter particles produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to two τ leptons. Keywords: Dark matter; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)046
