Abstract
A search is presented for production of dark-matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying boson in of collisions at with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a boson are analyzed. No excess above the Standard Model prediction is observed. Limits are set on the mass scale of the contact interaction as a function of the dark-matter particle mass using an effective field theory description of the interaction of dark matter with quarks or with bosons. Limits are also set on the coupling and mediator mass of a model in which the interaction is mediated by a scalar particle.
1 More- Received 31 March 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004
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