Dark Matter @ LHC 2018 (#DMLHC2018)

CMS searches for dark matter in events with highly-boosted resonances, using substructure and b-tagging techniques

5 Apr 2018, 17:00

15m

Main lecture room (HS I) (U. of Heidelberg / KIP)

Default track Open Session A)

Speaker

Siddharth M Narayanan (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Description

Searches for dark matter are conducted in events with highly boosted, hadronically decaying heavy resonances. The searches isolate final states containing large missing transverse energy or containing a beyond-Standard Model resonance. These studies are performed using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, in data recorded by the CMS detector in 2016 at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36/fb. New substructure and b-tagging techniques are utilized to identify the decay products of top quarks, Higgs bosons, or BSM resonances. With no significant excesses observed, results are interpreted as limits on various models.

Presentation materials

narayanan_180405_v1.pdf