TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.15.006
TI  - Towards better discrimination and improved modelling of dark-sector showers
PY  - 2024/04/02
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.15.006
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 15
SP  - 006
A1  - Buckley, Andy
AU  - Kar, Deepak
AU  - Sinha, Sukanya
AB  - As no evidence for classic WIMP-based signatures of dark matter have been found at the LHC, several phenomenological studies have raised the possibility of accessing a strongly-interacting dark sector through new collider-event topologies. If dark mesons exist, their evolution and hadronization procedure are currently little constrained. They could decay promptly and result in QCD-like jet structures, even though the original decaying particles are dark sector ones; they could behave as semi-visible jets; or they could behave as completely detector-stable hadrons, in which case the final state is just the missing transverse momentum. In this contribution we will introduce a study performed to explore use of jet substructure methods to distinguish dark-sector from QCD jets in the first two scenarios, using observables in a IRC-safe linear basis, and discuss ways forward for this approach to dark-matter at the LHC.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.15.006,
	title={{Towards better discrimination and improved modelling of dark-sector showers}},
	author={Andy Buckley and Deepak Kar and Sukanya Sinha},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={006},
	year={2024},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.15.006},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.15.006},
}