Highlights on dark matter searches

at the CMS experiment

PPC 2019
Jose Ruiz
on behalf of the CMS collaboration
 Dark Matter detection
Colliders
SM DM

Direct detection Whatever

- ’communicates’
DM-Nucleon the SM and the
scattering Dark sector:
Mediator

SM DM
Indirect detection
DM annihilation
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 CMS experiment and LHC

LHC provides pp collisions CMS records the products of LHC collisions

Non-interacting particles
cause momentum imbalance
in the transverse plane
of the beam

pT,miss → “Missing energy”

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What do we “see”?

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 MET determination
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Relies on the uncertainty of ●
Fake MET → no real non-
all objects in the event: interacting particle: energy
– Jets and momentum
thresholds, detector
– Muons inefficiencies.
– Electrons ●
Real MET → real particle
– Photons produced: Jet calibrations.
– Unclustered energy

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Z(→ e e, mu mu)+jets or W(→ e nu, mu nu)+jets
Photon+jets → Fake MET → Real MET

All visible except Z Reco Z-cand

[1903.06078]

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Fake MET

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Real MET

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 The mono-jet paradigm
[EXO-16-048]
The “mono-X” family:

1)Mono-jet + MET

2)Mono-V + MET

3)Mono-H + MET
At least one jet in the detector: 4)Mono-photon + MET
Mono-jet + missing energy
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DM + top production
[EXO-18-010]

DM + top-pair

Many SR categories
based on n. lepton,
b-jets and forward jets

DM + single-top

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 Main backgrounds:
Main backgrounds:
Data-driven Single-top
ttbar (with one lost lepton)
techniques W+jets
W+jets
Z → neutrinos

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 Limits

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Mono-Higgs searches
Many possible final states:

1)Higgs decay to a b-pair

[EXO-16-050]
2)Gamma-Gamma or taut-tau
Higgs decay
[EXO-16-055]
3) WW and ZZ
[EXO-18-011]

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 H(→ bb) + DM H(→ γγ)
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Selection based on high ● Selection based on photons pT,
missing pT, high pT Higgs- diphoton invariant mass and
tagged fat jet missing pT

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 WW

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 ZZ

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 Mono-photon [EXO-16-053]

Simplified
EFT ADD

Selection: Main backgrounds:

pT,miss > 170 GeV Z(→ inv) + photon 50%

ET(photon) > 175 GeV W(→ lost l, nu) + photon 20%
W(→ e, nu) e fakes a photon

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Mono-photon → Results

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Spin-0 summary plots

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Spin-1 summary plots

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 Summary and conclusions
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A lot of DM searches performed at CMS
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Much more already in the litterature and even more
to come!
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Stay connected for 2019 Full-Run-II results!
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Preliminary public results:
https://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/preliminary-results/EXO/

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