scholarly journals Search for a Dark Matter Candidate Produced in Association with a Single Top Quark inpp¯Collisions ats=1.96  TeV

2012 ◽  
Vol 108 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Aaltonen ◽  
B. Álvarez González ◽  
S. Amerio ◽  
D. Amidei ◽  
A. Anastassov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Single Top

scholarly journals Single-top final states as a probe of top-flavoured dark matter models at the LHC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Blanke ◽  
Priscilla Pani ◽  
Giacomo Polesello ◽  
Giulia Rovelli
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Final States ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
Minimal Flavour Violation ◽  
Single Top ◽  
Discovery Potential ◽  
Flavour Violation ◽  
Flavour Physics

Abstract Models incorporating flavoured dark matter provide an elegant solution to the dark matter problem, evading the tight LHC and direct direction constraints on simple WIMP models. In Dark Minimal Flavour Violation, a simple framework of flavoured dark matter with new sources of flavour violation, the constraints from thermal freeze-out, direct detection experiments, and flavour physics create well-defined benchmark scenarios for these models. We study the LHC phenomenology of four such scenarios, focusing on final states where a single top quark is produced accompanied by no jets, one jet from the fragmentation of light quarks or a b-tagged jet. For each of these signatures we develop a realistic LHC analysis, and we show that the proposed analyses would increase the parameter space coverage for the four benchmarks, compared to existing flavour-conserving LHC analyses. Finally we show the projected discovery potential of the considered signatures for the full LHC statistics at 14 TeV, and for the High Luminosity LHC.

scholarly journals Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark in $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV $$pp$$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Aad ◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
D. C. Abbott ◽  
A. Abed Abud ◽  
K. Abeling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
Proton Collision ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Missing Transverse Momentum ◽  
Single Top ◽  
Proton Proton Collision ◽  
Charged Leptons ◽  
Two Higgs Doublet Model

AbstractThis paper presents a search for dark matter in the context of a two-Higgs-doublet model together with an additional pseudoscalar mediator, a, which decays into the dark-matter particles. Processes where the pseudoscalar mediator is produced in association with a single top quark in the 2HDM+a model are explored for the first time at the LHC. Several final states which include either one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and a significant amount of missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ s = 13  TeV during LHC Run 2 (2015–2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 $$\hbox {fb}^{-1}$$ fb - 1 . No significant excess above the Standard Model predictions is found. The results are expressed as 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of the signal models considered.

scholarly journals A constraint on light primordial black holes from the interstellar medium temperature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dwarf Galaxy ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Primordial Black Holes ◽  
Substantial Fraction ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Medium Temperature ◽  
Fast Electrons

Abstract Primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate. They decay via Hawking evaporation. Energetic particles from the Hawking radiation interact with interstellar gas, depositing their energy as heat and ionization. For a sufficiently high Hawking temperature, fast electrons produced by black holes deposit a substantial fraction of energy as heat through the Coulomb interaction. Using the dwarf galaxy Leo T, we place an upper bound on the fraction of primordial black hole dark matter. For M < 5 × 10−17M⊙, our bound is competitive with or stronger than other bounds.

scholarly journals Dark matter candidates in a type-II radiative neutrino mass model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto A. Lineros ◽  
Mathias Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Neutral Particle ◽  
Matter Density ◽  
Indirect Detection ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Mass Model ◽  
Direct And Indirect Detection

Abstract We explore the connection between Dark Matter and neutrinos in a model inspired by radiative Type-II seessaw and scotogenic scenarios. In our model, we introduce new electroweakly charged states (scalars and a vector-like fermion) and impose a discrete ℤ2 symmetry. Neutrino masses are generated at the loop level and the lightest ℤ2-odd neutral particle is stable and it can play the role of a Dark Matter candidate. We perform a numerical analysis of the model showing that neutrino masses and flavour structure can be reproduced in addition to the correct dark matter density, with viable DM masses from 700 GeV to 30 TeV. We explore direct and indirect detection signatures and show interesting detection prospects by CTA, Darwin and KM3Net and highlight the complementarity between these observables.

scholarly journals Search for FCNC single top-quark production at s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

2012 ◽  
Vol 712 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Aad ◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
J. Abdallah ◽  
A.A. Abdelalim ◽  
A. Abdesselam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Atlas Detector ◽  
Single Top ◽  
Top Quark Production ◽  
Quark Production
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