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2B or not 2B, a study of bottom-quark-philic semi-visible jets

by Deepak Kar, Wandile Nzuza, Sukanya Sinha

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Deepak Kar · Sukanya Sinha
Submission information
Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01885v4  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2024-10-29
Date submitted: 2024-10-18 06:27
Submitted by: Kar, Deepak
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Core
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approaches: Computational, Phenomenological

Abstract

Semi-visible jets arise in strongly interacting dark sector, resulting in jets overlapping with the missing transverse momentum direction. The implementation of semi-visible jets is done using the Pythia Hidden Valley module to mimic the QCD sector showering in so-called dark shower. In this work, only heavy flavour Standard Model quarks are considered in dark shower, resulting in a much less ambiguous collider signature of semi-visible jets compared to the democratic production of all five quark flavours in dark shower. The constraints from available searches on this signature are presented, and it is shown the signal reconstruction can be improved by using variable-radius jets. Finally a search strategy is suggested.

Author comments upon resubmission

We thank the referees for their positive feedback, the requested changes have been done.

List of changes

The Z(nunu)bb background is added in Table 4, in the Figures 8-10, and in the text, as requested by the referee. Also the Table 4 has been fixed to reflect that the yields are shown.

Published as SciPost Phys. Core 7, 071 (2024)

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