Search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

• Published in: Physics letters. B Vol. 763; no. C; pp. 251 - 268
• Main Authors: Albrand, S., Alvarez Gonzalez, B., Anger, P., Baker, O.K., Biedermann, D., Bielski, R., Bingul, A., Bocci, A., Bomben, M., Bruni, G., Buanes, T., Budagov, I.A., Bulekov, O., Busato, E., Chen, H., Chiodini, G., Cooper-Sarkar, A.M., Crispin Ortuzar, M., D'amen, G., Forcolin, G.T., Gibson, S.M., Golling, T., Gongadze, A., Grafström, P., Guescini, F., Gustavino, G., Hamnett, P.G., Hasegawa, M., Hays, J.M., Hines, E., Hinman, R.R., Hu, S., Iizawa, T., Izzo, V., Johns, K.A., Kagan, H., Kamenshchikov, A., Kawamura, G., Kramberger, G., Krizka, K., Kulchitsky, Y., Lacey, J., Lanza, A., Leister, A.G., Li, L., Liberti, B., Loevschall-Jensen, A.E., Loginov, A., Love, J., Maček, B., Maier, T., Malecki, Pa, Marcisovsky, M., Mashimo, T., Maximov, D.A., Meineck, C., Miano, F., Miglioranzi, S., Monk, J., Narrias Villar, D.I., Nessi, M., Nguyen, D.H., Nozka, L., Ocariz, J., Pajchel, K., Pasqualucci, E., Pettersson, N.E., Pilcher, J.E., Pires, S., Price, D., Quilty, D., Rescigno, M., Roda, C., Romaniouk, A., Rudolph, M.S., Schiavi, C., Schmitt, C., Scutti, F., Snyder, S., Soh, D.A., Stucci, S.A., Suk, M., Ta, D., Takeshita, T., Tanaka, S., Taylor, W., Vacek, V., Vanadia, M., Veneziano, S., Venturi, M., Venturini, A., Voss, R., Wagner, P., Wittgen, M., Wu, Y., Yamauchi, K., Yeletskikh, I., Zhang, R., Zhu, C.G., Zimmermann, C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10-12-2016; Elsevier
• Subjects: Fysik; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Physical Sciences; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Subatomic Physics; Subatomär fysik
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.042

A search is presented for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson using 3.2 fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with a hadronic jet compatible with a W or Z boson and with large missing transverse momentum are analysed. The data are consistent with the Standard Model predictions and are interpreted in terms of both an effective field theory and a simplified model containing dark matter.