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Mono-Higgs signature in fermionic dark matter model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-09-06 v3

Abstract

In light of the Higgs boson discovery, we explore mono-Higgs signature in association with dark matter pair production at the LHC in a renormalizable model with a fermionic dark matter candidate. For two channels with γγ+MET\gamma\gamma+\text{MET} and bbˉ+METb \bar b+\text{MET} in the final state we simulate the SM backgrounds and signal events at s=14\sqrt{s} = 14 TeV. We then estimate the LHC sensitivities for various benchmark points for two integrated luminosities L=300 fb1{\cal L} = 300~\text{fb}^{-1} and L=3 ab1{\cal L} = 3~ \text{ab}^{-1}. We constrain the Yukawa coupling of the dark matter-SM interaction, taking into account bounds from mono-Higgs signature, observed dark matter relic density, Higgs physics, perturbativity requirement and electroweak measurements. Concerning the mono-Higgs search, it turns out that the channel with the largest branching ratio, bbˉb \bar b channel, provides better sensitivity. There are found regions in the parameter space of the model compatible with all the bounds mentioned above which can be reached in future LHC studies.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04559,
  title  = {Mono-Higgs signature in fermionic dark matter model},
  author = {Karim Ghorbani and Leila Khalkhali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04559},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages, clarifications added, journal version

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