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Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.

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Sirunyan, AM; Tumasyan, A; Adam, W; Asilar, E; Bergauer, T; Brandstetter, J; Brondolin, E; Dragicevic, M; Erö, J; Flechl, M; Friedl, M; Rad, N ...
Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
January 2017

A search is presented for an excess of events with heavy-flavor quark pairs ( t t ¯ and b b ¯ ) and a large imbalance in transverse momentum in data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV . The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb - 1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. No deviations are observed with respect to standard model predictions. The results are used in the first interpretation of dark matter production in t t ¯ and b b ¯ final states in a simplified model. This analysis is also the first to perform a statistical combination of searches for dark matter produced with different heavy-flavor final states. The combination provides exclusions that are stronger than those achieved with individual heavy-flavor final states.

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The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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1434-6052

ISSN

1434-6044

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

77

Issue

12

Start / End Page

845

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
 

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Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., … Giffels, M. (2017). Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV. The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, 77(12), 845. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5317-4
Sirunyan, A. M., A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, E. Asilar, T. Bergauer, J. Brandstetter, E. Brondolin, et al. “Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields 77, no. 12 (January 2017): 845. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5317-4.
Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Asilar E, Bergauer T, Brandstetter J, et al. Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV. The European physical journal C, Particles and fields. 2017 Jan;77(12):845.
Sirunyan, A. M., et al. “Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV.The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, vol. 77, no. 12, Jan. 2017, p. 845. Epmc, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5317-4.
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Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV. The European physical journal C, Particles and fields. 2017 Jan;77(12):845.
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Published In

The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

DOI

EISSN

1434-6052

ISSN

1434-6044

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

77

Issue

12

Start / End Page

845

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences