Search for strongly interacting massive particles generating trackless jets in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\text {TeV} $$

Autor: Viacheslav Bunichev, Mikko Voutilainen, Stefaan Tavernier, Jordan Nash, Daniel Claes, Francisco Garcia, Raghunath Pradhan, Gabriella Pugliese, Altan Cakir, Alberto Escalante del Valle, Mate Csanad, Kadir Saygin, Riccardo Di Maria, Johny Jaramillo Gallego, Ted Kolberg, Kun Shi, Caglar Zorbilmez, Ankush Reddy Kanuganti, Walaa Elmetenawee, Fabrizio Palla, Kevin Pedro, Valentina Sola, Cristina Riccardi, Johan Borg, Sami Lehti, Jussi Viinikainen, FLAVIA CETORELLI, Maria Savina, Daniele Fasanella, Shalini Thakur, Konstantin Androsov, Giuseppe Della Ricca, Eduard De La Cruz Burelo, Wael HAJ AHMAD (Vael HAJAHMAD), Francisco Javier Cuevas Maestro, Alessandra Cappati, Andrea Giammanco, Guenther Dissertori, Nils Faltermann, Tomas Lindén, Simone Pigazzini, Armando Bermudez Martinez, Giacomo Fedi, Tapio Lampén, Gustavo Gil Da Silveira, Danilo Meuser, Yalcin Guler, Martina Malberti, Jochen Schieck, Tommaso Diotalevi, Nikolaos Manthos, Zhengyun You, Ilaria Vai, Markus Seidel, Ali Eren Simsek, Tamer Elkafrawy, Luca Giommi, Mario Pelliccioni, Junghwan Goh, Spandan Mondal, German Ruben Martinez, Evgueni Tcherniaev, Jeremy Andrea, Panja Luukka, Karl Ehatäht, Frank Geurts, Isabel Josa Mutuberria, Junquan Tao, David D'Enterria, Francesco Fienga, Robert Cousins, Santeri Laurila, Jorma Tuominiemi, Martin Grunewald, Isidro González Caballero, Jeremi Niedziela, Robert Bainbridge, Federica Legger, ANKITA MEHTA, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Maciej Malawski, Luca Malgeri, Leszek Grzanka, Peter Elmer, Lea Caminada, Kenneth Osterberg, Emil Sørensen Bols, Anton Stepennov, Tatyana Dimova, Peter Wittich, Maria Cruz Fouz Iglesias, Muhammad Gul, Jaana Heikkilä, Arne Christoph Reimers, Alexander Tapper, Lev Dudko, Marco Monteno, Anna Colaleo, Gabriella Pásztor, Sung-Won Lee, Andreas Hinzmann, Brent Yates, Paolo Dini, Kevin Lannon, Mithat Kaya, Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez, Maxim Titov, Rainer Wallny, Shabnam Jabeen, Davide Di Croce, Jorgen D'Hondt, Deborah Pinna, Hannu Siikonen, Olga Evdokimov, Simone Gennai, Freya Blekman, Sercan Sen, Federica Maria Simone, Geoffrey Hall, Eija Tuominen, Marko Dragicevic, Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo, Mykhailo Dalchenko, Joona Juhani Havukainen, Roberto Covarelli, Christophorus Grab, Henning Flaecher, Minsuk Kim, Helen Heath, Henning Kirschenmann, Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos, Muhammad Alibordi, Vladimir Gavrilov, Eliza Melo da Costa, Andrea Davide Benaglia, Matthew Herndon, Harrison Bertrand Prosper, Federico Siviero, Mariana Shopova, Mauro Emanuele Dinardo, Bożena Boimska
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The European Physical Journal C. 82
ISSN: 1434-6052
1434-6044
Popis: A search for dark matter in the form of strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs) using the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. The SIMPs would be produced in pairs that manifest themselves as pairs of jets without tracks. The energy fraction of jets carried by charged particles is used as a key discriminator to suppress efficiently the large multijet background, and the remaining background is estimated directly from data. The search is performed using proton–proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 16.1$$\,\text {fb}^{-1}$$ fb - 1 , collected with the CMS detector in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. For the simplified dark matter model under consideration, SIMPs with masses up to 100$$\,\text {GeV}$$ GeV are excluded and further sensitivity is explored towards higher masses.
Databáze: OpenAIRE