TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s =8TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abajyan, T.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdel Khalek, S.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abi, B.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - Abouzeid, O. S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adams, D. L.
AU - Addy, T. N.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adomeit, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Agustoni, M.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmad, A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akimoto, G.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albrand, S.
AU - Alconada Verzini, M. J.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexandre, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Alimonti, G.
AU - Alio, L.
AU - Alison, J.
AU - Allbrooke, B. M.M.
AU - Allison, L. J.
AU - Allport, P. P.
AU - Allwood-Spiers, S. E.
AU - Kimura, N.
AU - Mitani, T.
AU - Yorita, K.
PY - 2014/7/10
Y1 - 2014/7/10
N2 - A search is presented for production of dark-matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a Z boson are analyzed. No excess above the Standard Model prediction is observed. Limits are set on the mass scale of the contact interaction as a function of the dark-matter particle mass using an effective field theory description of the interaction of dark matter with quarks or with Z bosons. Limits are also set on the coupling and mediator mass of a model in which the interaction is mediated by a scalar particle.
AB - A search is presented for production of dark-matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a Z boson are analyzed. No excess above the Standard Model prediction is observed. Limits are set on the mass scale of the contact interaction as a function of the dark-matter particle mass using an effective field theory description of the interaction of dark matter with quarks or with Z bosons. Limits are also set on the coupling and mediator mass of a model in which the interaction is mediated by a scalar particle.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904290196
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 90
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 1
M1 - 012004
ER -