Search for direct production of GeV-scale resonances decaying to a pair of muons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, no.12, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Publication Date: 2023
- Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep12(2023)070
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals, Nature Index
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
A search for direct production of low-mass dimuon resonances is performed using root s = 13TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment during the 2017-2018 operation of the CERN LHC with an integrated luminosity of 96.6 fb(-1). The search exploits a dedicated high-rate trigger stream that records events with two muons with transverse momenta as low as 3 GeV but does not include the full event information. The search is performed by looking for narrow peaks in the dimuon mass spectrum in the ranges of 1.1-2.6 GeV and 4.2-7.9 GeV. No significant excess of events above the expectation from the standard model background is observed. Model-independent limits on production rates of dimuon resonances within the experimental fiducial acceptance are set. Competitive or world's best limits are set at 90% confidence level for a minimal dark photon model and for a scenario with two Higgs doublets and an extra complex scalar singlet (2HDM+S). Values of the squared kinetic mixing coefficient epsilon(2) in the dark photon model above 10(-6) are excluded over most of the mass range of the search. In the 2HDM+S, values of the mixing angle sin(theta(H)) above 0.08 are excluded over most of the mass range of the search with a fixed ratio of the Higgs doublets vacuum expectation tan beta = 0.5.