Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2021; no. 11
• Main Authors: Krammer, N., Pitters, F. M., Schieck, J., Templ, S., Darwish, M. R., Thomas, L., Niedziela, M., Novaes, S. F., Ahmad, M., Iemmi, F., Bharthuar, S., Tuominen, E., Jarry, P., Beaudette, F., Busson, P., Charlot, C., Lomidze, I., Tsamalaidze, Z., Meyer, A., Bin Anuar, A. A., Raspereza, A., Rübenach, J., Saibel, A., Wen, Y., Hajheidari, M., Rabbertz, K., Mandal, K., Bansal, S., Dutta, S., Sarkar, S., Mishra, D. K., Khakzad, M., Creanza, D., Lucchini, M. T., Iorio, A. O. M., Lusiani, E., Calzaferri, S., Ratti, S. P., Vitulo, P., Menichelli, M., Tornago, M., Belforte, S., Choi, S., Yang, S., Sanchez-Hernandez, A., Vazquez Valencia, F., Awan, M. I. M., Pisano, M., Savina, M., Stepennov, A., Danilov, M., Elumakhov, D., Kachanov, V., Mandrik, P., Reyes-Almanza, R., Piedra Gomez, J., Perera, N., David, A., Lourenço, C., Ristic, B., Bärtschi, P., Heikkilä, J. K., Simsek, A. E., Özçelik, Ö., Cerci, S., Fayer, S., Malik, S., Wilson, J., Bartek, R., Benelli, G., Lander, R., Regnard, S., Saltzberg, D., Krutelyov, V., Dutta, I., Mudholkar, T., Hogan, S., Banerjee, S., Berry, D., Sexton-Kennedy, E., Muthirakalayil Madhu, A., Chen, X., Murray, M., Wright, D., Eysermans, J., Hiltbrand, J., Revering, M., Saradhy, R., Golf, F., Kwan, S., Jung, A. W., Thieman, J., Wang, H., Acharya, H., Dalchenko, M., Delgado, A., Melo, A., White, S., Wolfe, E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 19.11.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Constraint modelling; Dark matter; Decay; Elementary Particles; Higgs bosons; High energy physics; Jets; Large Hadron Collider; Luminosity; Machine learning; Neutrinos; Particle collisions; Particle physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Protons; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quarks; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Relativity Theory; Searching; Standard model (particle physics); Statistical methods; String Theory; Transverse momentum; Higgs physics; Dark matter; Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2021)153

A bstract A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb − 1 , collected in 2017–2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb − 1 , collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.