Search for dark mesons decaying to top and bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector


Aad G., Aakvaag E., Abbott B., Abdelhameed S., Abeling K., Abicht N., ...Daha Fazla

Journal of High Energy Physics, cilt.2024, sa.9, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2024 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/jhep09(2024)005
  • Dergi Adı: Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Beyond Standard Model, Dark Matter, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A search for dark mesons originating from strongly-coupled, SU(2) dark flavor symmetry conserving models and decaying gaugephobically to pure Standard Model final states containing top and bottom quarks is presented. The search targets fully hadronic final states and final states with exactly one electron or muon and multiple jets. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions collected at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess over the Standard Model background expectation is observed and the results are used to set the first direct constraints on this type of model. The two-dimensional signal space of dark pion masses mπD and dark rho-meson masses mρD is scanned. For mπD/mρD = 0.45, dark pions with masses mπD< 940 GeV are excluded at the 95% CL, while for mπD/mρD = 0.25 masses mπD< 740 GeV are excluded.