Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physical Review D
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. © 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.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052011
Publication Date
3-22-2016
Recommended Citation
Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Baarmand, Marc M.; Bhopatkar, Vallary; Colafranceschi, Stefano; Hohlmann, Marcus; Kalakhety, H; Noonan, Daniel; Roy, Tuhin S.; and Yumiceva, Francisco X., "Search for dark matter and unparticles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at square root of s = 8 TeV" (2016). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 428.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/428