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RECAST framework reinterpretation of an ATLAS Dark Matter Search constraining a model of a dark Higgs boson decaying to two $b$-quarks

The reinterpretation of a search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to $b$-quarks performed with RECAST, a software framework designed to facilitate the reinterpretation of existing searches for new physics, is presented. Reinterpretation using RECAST is enabled thro...

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Autor principal: The ATLAS collaboration
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2686290
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Sumario:The reinterpretation of a search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to $b$-quarks performed with RECAST, a software framework designed to facilitate the reinterpretation of existing searches for new physics, is presented. Reinterpretation using RECAST is enabled through the sustainable preservation of the original data analysis as re-executable declarative workflows using modern cloud technologies and integrated with the wider CERN Analysis Preservation efforts. The reinterpretation targets a model predicting dark matter production in association with a hypothetical dark Higgs boson decaying into $b$-quarks where the mass of the dark Higgs boson $m_{s}$ is a free parameter, necessitating a faithful reinterpretation of the analysis. The dataset has an integrated luminosity of 79.8$\,$fb$^{-1}$ and was recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. Constraints on the parameter space of the dark Higgs model for a fixed choice of dark matter mass $m_{\chi}$ = 200 GeV exclude model configurations with a mediator mass up to 3.2 TeV.