Probing dark matter with disappearing tracks at the LHC
Probing dark matter with disappearing tracks at the LHC
Models where dark matter is a part of an electroweak multiplet feature charged particles with macroscopic lifetimes due to the charged-neutral mass split of the order of pion mass. At the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will identify these charged particles as disappearing tracks, since they decay into a massive invisible dark matter candidate and a very soft charged Standard-Model particle, which fails to pass the reconstruction requirements. While ATLAS and CMS have focused on the supersymmetric versions of these scenarios, we have performed here the reinterpretation of the latest ATLAS disappearing track search for a suite of dark matter multiplets with different spins and electroweak quantum numbers. More concretely, we consider the cases of the inert two Higgs doublet, minimal fermion dark matter and vector triplet dark matter models. Our procedure is validated by using the same wino and Higgsino benchmark models employed by the ATLAS Collaboration. We have found that with the disappearing track signature, one can probe a vast portion of the parameter space, well beyond the reach of prompt missing energy searches (notably monojets). We provide tables with the upper limits on the cross section and efficiencies in the lifetime - a dark matter mass plane for all the models under consideration, which can be used for an easy recast for similar classes of models. Moreover, we provide the recasting code employed here, as part of the public LLP recasting repository.
Belyaev, Alexander
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Prestel, Stefan
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Rojas-Abbate, Felipe
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Zurita, Jose
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10 May 2021
Belyaev, Alexander
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Prestel, Stefan
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Rojas-Abbate, Felipe
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Zurita, Jose
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Belyaev, Alexander, Prestel, Stefan, Rojas-Abbate, Felipe and Zurita, Jose
(2021)
Probing dark matter with disappearing tracks at the LHC.
Physical Review D, 103 (9), [095006].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.095006).
Abstract
Models where dark matter is a part of an electroweak multiplet feature charged particles with macroscopic lifetimes due to the charged-neutral mass split of the order of pion mass. At the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will identify these charged particles as disappearing tracks, since they decay into a massive invisible dark matter candidate and a very soft charged Standard-Model particle, which fails to pass the reconstruction requirements. While ATLAS and CMS have focused on the supersymmetric versions of these scenarios, we have performed here the reinterpretation of the latest ATLAS disappearing track search for a suite of dark matter multiplets with different spins and electroweak quantum numbers. More concretely, we consider the cases of the inert two Higgs doublet, minimal fermion dark matter and vector triplet dark matter models. Our procedure is validated by using the same wino and Higgsino benchmark models employed by the ATLAS Collaboration. We have found that with the disappearing track signature, one can probe a vast portion of the parameter space, well beyond the reach of prompt missing energy searches (notably monojets). We provide tables with the upper limits on the cross section and efficiencies in the lifetime - a dark matter mass plane for all the models under consideration, which can be used for an easy recast for similar classes of models. Moreover, we provide the recasting code employed here, as part of the public LLP recasting repository.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 March 2021
Published date: 10 May 2021
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Recently, CMS has made public a new disappearing track study , and the public reinterpretation material was only made public in July . Given the important differences between ATLAS and CMS in a) their inner tracker configurations and b) the analysis strategy, we leave the recasting of the CMS results for future work. The authors acknowledge the use of the IRIDIS High Performance Computing Facility, and associated support services at the University of Southampton, in the completion of this work. We are indebted to Ryu Sawada for his valuable help with understanding the details of the ATLAS analysis. We also would like to thank Giovanna Cottin and Nishita Desai for useful discussions, and Andre Lessa for help with uploading our code to the LLP Recasting Repository, for the useful suggestions to improve the code and for being our first beta tester. A. B. acknowledges partial support from the STFC Grant No. ST/L000296/1 and the Soton-FAPESP grant. AB also thanks the NExT Institute and Royal Society International Exchange Grant No. IEC-R2-202018. F. R. acknowledges Funding for Postdoctoral research in Southampton University, United Kingdom, CONICYT Grant No. 74180065. This work has been supported by the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP) of the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ (Project No. 39083149). S. P. gratefully acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council, under Contract No. 2016-05996.
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