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Actual Physics behind Mono-X

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-10-17 v3

Abstract

Mono-X searches are standard dark matter search strategies at the LHC. First, we show how in the case of initial state radiation they essentially collapse to mono-jet searches. Second, we systematically study mono-X signatures from decays of heavier dark matter states. Direct detection constraints strongly limit our MSSM expectations, but largely vanish for mono-Z and mono-Higgs signals once we include light NMSSM mediators. Finally, the decay topology motivates mono-W-pair and mono-Higgs-pair searches, strengthening and complementing their mono-X counterparts.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.11637,
  title  = {Actual Physics behind Mono-X},
  author = {Elias Bernreuther and Jan Horak and Tilman Plehn and Anja Butter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11637},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

32 pages, 18 figures; version v2: corrected typos, added references; version v3: added figures and references, corrected typos

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