Collider signatures of near-continuum dark matter

Autor: Steven Ferrante, Seung J. Lee, Maxim Perelstein
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 5, Pp 1-27 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2024)215
Popis: Abstract In this paper we study a near-continuum dark matter model, in which dark sector consists of a tower of closely spaced states with weak-scale masses. We construct a five-dimensional model which naturally realizes this spectrum. The dark matter is described by a bulk field, which interacts with the brane-localized Standard Model sector via a Z portal. We then study collider signatures of this model. Near-continuum dark matter states produced in a collider undergo cascade decays, resulting in events with high multiplicity of jets and leptons, large missing energy, and displaced vertices. A custom-built Monte Carlo tool described in this paper allows for detailed simulation of the signal events. We present results of such simulations for the case of electron-positron collisions.
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