Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to $b$-quarks in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud Z. Barnovska-Blenessy 1 N. Berger 1 M. Delmastro 1 L. Di Ciaccio 1 S. Elles 1 K. Grevtsov 1 T. Guillemin 1 T. Hryn’ova 1 S. Jézéquel 1 I. Koletsou 1 R. Lafaye 1 Jérémy Lévêque 1 P. Mastrandea 1 G. Sauvage 1 E. Sauvan 1 O. Simard 1 B.H. Smart 1 T. Todorov 1 I. Wingerter-Seez 1 E. Yatsenko 1 S. Albrand 2 S. Berlendis 2 C. Camincher 2 J. Collot 2 S. Crépé-Renaudin 2 P.A. Delsart 2 C. Gabaldon 2 M.H. Genest 2 P.O.J. Gradin 2 J.Y. Hostachy 2 F. Ledroit-Guillon 2 A. Lleres 2 A. Lucotte 2 F. Malek 2 E. Petit 2 J. Stark 2 B. Trocmé 2 M. Wu 2 G. Rahal 3 D. Boumediene 4 E. Busato 4 D. Calvet 4 S. Calvet 4 A.R. Chomont 4 J. Donini 4 Ph. Gris 4 R. Madar 4 D. Pallin 4 S.M. Romano Saez 4 C. Santoni 4 D. Simon 4 F. Vazeille 4 G. Aad 5 M. Alstaty 5 M. Barbero 5 A. Calandri 5 T.P. Calvet 5 Y. Coadou 5 C. Diaconu 5 F. Djama 5 V. Ellajosyula 5 L. Feligioni 5 A. Hadef 5 G.D. Hallewell 5 F. Hubaut 5 S.J. Kahn 5 E. B. F. G. Knoops 5 E. Le Guirriec 5 J. Liu 5 K. Liu 5 D. Madaffari 5 E. Monnier 5 S. Muanza 5 E. Nagy 5 P. Pralavorio 5 Y. Rodina 5 A. Rozanov 5 M. Talby 5 T. Theveneaux-Pelzer 5 R.E. Ticse Torres 5 S. Tisserant 5 J. Toth 5 F. Touchard 5 L. Vacavant 5 Chen Wang 5
1 LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
2 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
3 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
4 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
5 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
Abstract : A search for dark matter pair production in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks is presented, using 3.2 $fb^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The decay of the Higgs boson is reconstructed as a high-momentum $b\bar{b}$ system with either a pair of small-radius jets, or a single large-radius jet with substructure. The observed data are found to be consistent with the expected backgrounds. Results are interpreted using a simplified model with a $Z'$ gauge boson mediating the interaction between dark matter and the Standard Model as well as a two-Higgs-doublet model containing an additional $Z'$ boson which decays to a Standard Model Higgs boson and a new pseudoscalar Higgs boson, the latter decaying into a pair of dark matter particles.
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M. Aaboud, Z. Barnovska-Blenessy, N. Berger, M. Delmastro, L. Di Ciaccio, et al.. Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to $b$-quarks in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, Elsevier, 2017, 765, pp.11-31. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.035⟩. ⟨in2p3-01375528⟩

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