Search for dark matter and unparticles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s =8 TeV

(CMS Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052011

Search for dark matter and unparticles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s =8 TeV

(CMS Collaboration)

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Abstract

A search for evidence of particle dark matter (DM) and unparticle production at the LHC has been performed using events containing two charged leptons, consistent with the decay of a Z boson, and large missing transverse momentum. This study is based on data collected with the CMS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1 of pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No significant excess of events is observed above the number expected from the standard model contributions. The results are interpreted in terms of 90% confidence level limits on the DM-nucleon scattering cross section, as a function of the DM particle mass, for both spin-dependent and spin-independent scenarios. Limits are set on the effective cutoff scale Λ, and on the annihilation rate for DM particles, assuming that their branching fraction to quarks is 100%. Additionally, the most stringent 95% confidence level limits to date on the unparticle model parameters are obtained.

Original language	English
Article number	052011
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	93
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052011
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2016

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© 2016 CERN., for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the «http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation	1151640, 1506168, 1206044, 1314131, 1401984, 1306951, 1506130, 1120138, 1211067, 1508869
Seventh Framework Programme	246806
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000250/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/J004871/1, GRIDPP, PP/E002803/1, ST/N001273/1, ST/H000925/2, ST/H000925/1, ST/J005479/1, ST/K001531/1, ST/I000305/1, PP/E000479/1, ST/M004775/1, ST/K001639/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/M002020/1, ST/I003622/1, ST/N000242/1
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	153664

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Search for dark matter and unparticles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s =8 TeV

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