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2B or not 2B, a study of bottom-quark-philic semi-visible jets
by Deepak Kar, Wandile Nzuza, Sukanya Sinha
Submission summary
| Ontological classification |
| Academic field: |
Physics |
| Specialties: |
- High-Energy Physics - Experiment
- High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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| 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.
