Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Higgs Boson Decaying into W±Wa" or ZZ in Fully Hadronic Final States from s =13 TeV pp Collisions Recorded with the ATLAS Detector

Summary, in English

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±Wa"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)V(qq) 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 ms>160 GeV are excluded. © 2021 CERN.

• Author: G Aad; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Eric Edward Corrigan; Caterina Doglioni; Jannik Geisen; Kristian Gregersen; Eva Brottmann Hansen; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Edgar Kellermann; Balazs Konya; Else Lytken; Katja Mankinen; Caterina Marcon; Ulf Mjörnmark; Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier; Ruth Pöttgen; Trine Poulsen; Eleni Skorda; Oxana Smirnova; L Zwalinski
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2021
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 126
• Issue: 12
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.121802
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: Bosons; Galaxies; Germanium compounds; A-center; ATLAS detectors; Dark matter particles; Final state; Higgs boson; Novel techniques; The standard model; Dark Matter
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114