dc.contributor.author | Florez, Andres | |
dc.contributor.author | Gurrola, Alfredo | |
dc.contributor.author | Johns, Will | |
dc.contributor.author | Maruri, Jessica | |
dc.contributor.author | Sheldon, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Sinha, Kuver | |
dc.contributor.author | Starko, Savanna Rae | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-29T19:21:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-29T19:21:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07-29 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Flórez, Andrés, Gurrola, Alfredo, Johns, Will, Maruri, Jessica, Sheldon, Paul, Sinha, Kuver, & Starko, Savanna Rae. Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016017. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2470-0010 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/9987 | |
dc.description.abstract | Dark matter that is electrically neutral but couples to the electromagnetic current through higher-dimensional operators constitutes an interesting class of models. We investigate this class of models at the Large Hadron Collider, focusing on the anapole moment operator in an effective field theory (EFT) framework, and utilizing the vector boson fusion (VBF) topology. Assuming proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, we present the VBF anapole dark matter (ADM) cross sections and kinematic distributions as functions of the free parameters of the EFT, the cutoff scale Lambda and the ADM mass m(chi). We find that the distinctive VBF topology of two forward jets and large dijet pseudorapidity gap is effective at reducing SM backgrounds, leading to a 5 sigma discovery reach for all kinematically allowed ADM masses with Lambda <= 1.62 (1.1) TeV, assuming an integrated luminosity of 3000 (100) fb(-1). | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | We thank the constant and enduring financial support received for this project from the faculty of science at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), the administrative department of science, technology and innovation of Colombia (COLCIENCIAS), the Physics and Astronomy department at Vanderbilt University and the U.S. National Science Foundation. This work is supported in part by NSF Award No. PHY-1806612 and a Vanderbilt Discovery Grant. K.S. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. desc0009956 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Physical Review D | en_US |
dc.title | Anapole dark matter via vector boson fusion processes at the LHC | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |