Search for Inelastic Dark Matter in Events with Two Displaced Muons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13 TeV

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2024

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Amer Physical Soc

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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A search for dark matter in events with a displaced nonresonant muon pair and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is performed using an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1 of protonproton (pp) collision data at a center -of -mass energy of 13 TeV produced by the LHC in 2016-2018. No significant excess over the predicted backgrounds is observed. Upper limits are set on the product of the inelastic dark matter production cross section sigma(pp -> A0 -> chi 1 chi 2) and the decay branching fraction B(chi 2 -> chi 1 mu thorn mu-), where A0 is a dark photon and chi 1 and chi 2 are states in the dark sector with near mass degeneracy. This is the first dedicated collider search for inelastic dark matter.

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Physical Review Letters

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Q1

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Q1

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132

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4

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