학술논문

Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV
Document Type
article
Source
European Physical Journal C. 77(12)
Subject
CMS Collaboration
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Quantum Physics
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Language
Abstract
A search is presented for an excess of events with heavy-flavor quark pairs ( tt¯ and bb¯ ) 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 tt¯ and bb¯ 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.