Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet

A search is performed for events consistent with the pair production of a new heavy particle that acts as a mediator between a dark sector and normal matter, and that decays to a light quark and a new fermion called a dark quark. The search is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity...

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Main Author: CMS Collaboration
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Language:en_US
Published: 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124860
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description A search is performed for events consistent with the pair production of a new heavy particle that acts as a mediator between a dark sector and normal matter, and that decays to a light quark and a new fermion called a dark quark. The search is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 16.1 fb−1 from proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. The dark quark is charged only under a new quantum-chromodynamics-like force, and forms an “emerging jet” via a parton shower, containing long-lived dark hadrons that give rise to displaced vertices when decaying to standard model hadrons. The data are consistent with the expectation from standard model processes. Limits are set at 95% confidence level excluding dark pion decay lengths between 5 and 225 mm for dark mediators with masses between 400 and 1250 GeV. Decay lengths smaller than 5 and greater than 225 mm are also excluded in the lower part of this mass range. The dependence of the limit on the dark pion mass is weak for masses between 1 and 10 GeV. This analysis is the first dedicated search for the pair production of a new particle that decays to a jet and an emerging jet. ©2019
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spelling mit-1721.1/1248602022-09-30T10:09:04Z Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet CMS Collaboration Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics A search is performed for events consistent with the pair production of a new heavy particle that acts as a mediator between a dark sector and normal matter, and that decays to a light quark and a new fermion called a dark quark. The search is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 16.1 fb−1 from proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. The dark quark is charged only under a new quantum-chromodynamics-like force, and forms an “emerging jet” via a parton shower, containing long-lived dark hadrons that give rise to displaced vertices when decaying to standard model hadrons. The data are consistent with the expectation from standard model processes. Limits are set at 95% confidence level excluding dark pion decay lengths between 5 and 225 mm for dark mediators with masses between 400 and 1250 GeV. Decay lengths smaller than 5 and greater than 225 mm are also excluded in the lower part of this mass range. The dependence of the limit on the dark pion mass is weak for masses between 1 and 10 GeV. This analysis is the first dedicated search for the pair production of a new particle that decays to a jet and an emerging jet. ©2019 2020-04-24T17:48:04Z 2020-04-24T17:48:04Z 2019-02 2018-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124860 CMS Collaboration (Sirunyan, A.M., et al.), "Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet." Journal of high energy physics 2019 (Feb. 2019): no. 179 doi 10.1007/JHEP02(2019)179 ©2019 Author(s) en_US 10.1007/JHEP02(2019)179 Journal of high energy physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer
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Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title_full Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title_fullStr Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title_full_unstemmed Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title_short Search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
title_sort search for new particles decaying to a jet and an emerging jet
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