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Search for low mass vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV

Search for low mass vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV
Search for low mass vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV
A search for narrow vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs is presented. The analysis is based on data collected in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The hypothetical resonance is produced with sufficiently high transverse momentum that its decay products are merged into a single jet with two-prong substructure. A signal would be identified as a peak over a smoothly falling background in the distribution of the invariant mass of the jet, using novel jet substructure techniques. No evidence for such a resonance is observed within the mass range of 50-300 GeV. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section, and presented in a mass-coupling parameter space. The limits further constrain simplified models of dark matter production involving a mediator interacting between quarks and dark matter particles through a vector or axial-vector current. In the framework of these models, the results are the most sensitive to date, extending for the first time the search region to masses below 100 GeV.
1029-8479
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
The CMS Collaboration
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3

The CMS Collaboration (2018) Search for low mass vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 (1), [097]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2018)097).

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A search for narrow vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs is presented. The analysis is based on data collected in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The hypothetical resonance is produced with sufficiently high transverse momentum that its decay products are merged into a single jet with two-prong substructure. A signal would be identified as a peak over a smoothly falling background in the distribution of the invariant mass of the jet, using novel jet substructure techniques. No evidence for such a resonance is observed within the mass range of 50-300 GeV. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section, and presented in a mass-coupling parameter space. The limits further constrain simplified models of dark matter production involving a mediator interacting between quarks and dark matter particles through a vector or axial-vector current. In the framework of these models, the results are the most sensitive to date, extending for the first time the search region to masses below 100 GeV.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 January 2018
Published date: January 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 418080
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/418080
ISSN: 1029-8479
PURE UUID: 9f32ed4e-6ace-49f3-8d08-339be4c25e52
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Date deposited: 22 Feb 2018 17:30
Last modified: 05 Oct 2024 01:43

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