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Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s =8TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s =8TeV with the ATLAS detector

María Josefina Alconada Verzini, Francisco Alonso, Xabier Sebastián Anduaga, María Teresa Dova, Fernando Gabriel Monticelli, Martín Fernando Tripiana and ATLAS Collaboration
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.90(1), 052001
01/01/2014
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004View
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Abstract

A search is presented for production of dark-matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a Z boson are analyzed. No excess above the Standard Model prediction is observed. Limits are set on the mass scale of the contact interaction as a function of the dark-matter particle mass using an effective field theory description of the interaction of dark matter with quarks or with Z bosons. Limits are also set on the coupling and mediator mass of a model in which the interaction is mediated by a scalar particle. La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Instituto de Física La Plata
High Energy Physics Ciencias Exactas Experiment Física Phenomenology

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