Abstract
Semi-visible jets, with a significant contribution to the event's missing transverse momentum, can arise in strongly interacting dark sectors. This results in an event topology where one of the jets can be aligned with the direction of the missing transverse momentum. A search for semi-visible jets produced via a t-channel mediator exchange is presented. The analysis uses pp collisions with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 and a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the LHC. No excess over Standard Model predictions is observed. Assuming a coupling strength of unity between the mediator, a Standard Model quark and a dark quark, mediator masses up to 2.7 TeV can be excluded at the 95% confidence level. Upper limits on the coupling strength are also derived.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 138324 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Early online date | 11 Nov 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 11 Nov 2023 |
Bibliographical note
34 pages in total, author list starting page 18, 6 figures, 2 tables, submitted to PLB. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2022-37/Keywords
- hep-ex