Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Eric Edward Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Jannik Geisen, Kristian Gregersen, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Caterina Marcon, Ulf Mjörnmark, Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier, Ruth Pöttgen, Trine Poulsen, Eleni SkordaOxana Smirnova, L Zwalinski, ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

This paper presents a search for dark matter in the context of a two-Higgs-doublet model together with an additional pseudoscalar mediator, a, which decays into the dark-matter particles. Processes where the pseudoscalar mediator is produced in association with a single top quark in the 2HDM+a model are explored for the first time at the LHC. Several final states which include either one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and a significant amount of missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment at s=13 TeV during LHC Run 2 (2015–2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb - 1. No significant excess above the Standard Model predictions is found. The results are expressed as 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of the signal models considered. © 2021, The Author(s).
Original languageEnglish
Article number860
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume81
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Subatomic Physics

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