TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adachi, S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Akatsuka, S.
AU - Akerstedt, H.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akilli, E.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Alberghi, G. L.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albicocco, P.
AU - Alconada Verzini, M. J.
AU - Alderweireldt, S. C.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Ali, B.
AU - Aliev, M.
AU - Iizawa, T.
AU - Kaji, T.
AU - Kimura, N.
AU - Mitani, T.
AU - Morinaga, M.
AU - Yorita, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - A search for weakly interacting massive dark-matter particles produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1fb-1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at s=13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are interpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour-neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross-section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour-charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements.
AB - A search for weakly interacting massive dark-matter particles produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1fb-1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at s=13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are interpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour-neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross-section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour-charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5486-1
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5486-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040740833
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 78
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 1
M1 - 18
ER -