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Search for new invisible particles produced in events with jets and large missing transverse momentum at LHC with the CMS detector Run-II data

Although astrophysical evidence supports the existence of dark matter (DM), it remains one of the unanswered questions left by the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics. However, under hypotheses of new interactions, the production of dark matter can be detected as an excess of events with large missing transverse momentum (p_T^miss) over the SM background process.
This thesis documents a search for new particles at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), targeting events where large p_T^miss and energetic jets are produced in a proton-proton collision at 13 TeV. The data were collected from 2017 to 2018 during the second half of LHC Run-II. The analysis also targets events where a jet is produced from W or Z bosons identified by a deep-neural-network-based tagger. Multiple control regions targeting specific background processes are defined which estimate background yield in the signal region through a simultaneous fit across control regions of all search channels.
The result for the Run-II data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb^-1 is obtained by combining this analysis with the previously published 2016 data. No excess of events is observed compared to the SM background expectations.
The result of this search is interpreted in several new physics models, including simplified dark matter models, large extra dimension model (ADD), Higgs portal models, and leptoquark models. Limits are set on model parameters providing the most stringent direct constraints on dark matter search from colliders.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/48025
Date07 February 2024
CreatorsYuan, Siqi
ContributorsDemiragli, Zeynep
Source SetsBoston University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation
RightsAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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