scholarly journals Search for dark matter decaying to two displaced muons produced in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS detector, and for dark photons produced in electron-positron fixed-target collisions at 500 MeV with the PADME detector

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Sterenberg Frankenthal
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Proton Collisions ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Cms Detector ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions

scholarly journals Forward backward multiplicity correlations: a tool to study properties of the proton-proton collisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 05008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Dominguez-Rosas ◽  
Eleazar Cuautle Flores
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Hadron Production ◽  
Event Generator ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Proton Collisions ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Color Reconnection ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions ◽  
Production Mechanisms ◽  
Reconnection Model

Forward-backward multiplicity correlations have been used to study hadron production mechanisms in electron-positron, proton-proton and more recently in leadlead collisions. The experimental results on this correlations and its comparison to different models reveals an incomplete agreement. In this work, we present an study of forward backward multiplicity correlations in proton-proton collisions using PYTHIA event generator, at LHC energies. Detailed analysis is presented in the case of soft and hard QCD processes, incorporating color reconnection model as part of hadronization mechanism and multiple parton interactions effects in the correlations. Our results and its comparison to available experimental data suggest that this kind of correlations are great tools to characterize the events and gives the possibility to disentangle phenomena in hard and soft QCD processes.

Implementation of the CMS-EXO-17-015 analysis in the MadAnalysis 5 framework (leptoquark and dark matter with one muon, one jet and missing transverse energy; 77.4 fb−1)

2020 ◽  
pp. 2141002
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fuks ◽  
Adil Jueid
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Transverse Energy ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Missing Transverse Energy ◽  
Final State ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Proton Collisions ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Scalar Leptoquarks ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions

We present an implementation of the CMS-EXO-17-015 analysis in the MadAnalysis 5 framework. The analysis targets a search for dark matter in a channel in which it originates from the production and decay of a pair of scalar leptoquarks. This search considers a luminosity [Formula: see text] of CMS data collected in 2016 and 2017, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The final state signature is comprised of one isolated highly-energetic muon, one jet with a large transverse momentum and a significant amount of missing transverse energy. We validate our implementation in MadAnalysis 5 for a specific leptoquark/dark matter benchmark scenario. In particular, we compare predictions obtained with MadAnalysis 5 with the official CMS results for various kinematical distributions relevant for the CMS-EXO-17-015 analysis, as well as detailed cut-flow tables. We have found an excellent agreement.

scholarly journals Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
A. Tumasyan ◽  
W. Adam ◽  
J. W. Andrejkovic ◽  
T. Bergauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Transverse Momentum ◽  
Hadronic Decay ◽  
Large Radius ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Proton Collisions ◽  
Missing Transverse Momentum ◽  
State Radiation ◽  
Proton Proton Collisions ◽  
New Particles

Abstract A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb−1, collected in 2017–2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb−1, collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.

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