2016/08/02 by ATLAS Collaboration, M. Aaboud, G. Aad +98 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atlas (anatomy) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Electroweak interaction #Gaugino #Higgs boson #Higgsino #Large Hadron Collider #Neutralino #Nuclear physics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Supersymmetry #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep09(2016)175
published as JHEP09 (2016) 175 · 25 pages plus author list + cover pages (43 pages total), 6 figures, 4 tables, submitted to JHEP, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2015-12/
arxiv created 2016/08/02 · openalex publication_date 2016/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/09/16 · arxiv updated 2016/10/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A selection of searches by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC for the electroweak production of SUSY particles are used to study their impact on the constraints on dark matter candidates. The searches use 20 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 8 TeV. A likelihood-driven scan of a five-dimensional effective model focusing on the gaugino-higgsino and Higgs sector of the phenomenological minimal supersymmetric Standard Model is performed. This scan uses data from direct dark matter detection experiments, the relic dark matter density and precision flavour physics results. Further constraints from the ATLAS Higgs mass measurement and SUSY searches at LEP are also applied. A subset of models selected from this scan are used to assess the impact of the selected ATLAS searches in this five-dimensional parameter space. These ATLAS searches substantially impact those models for which the mass m( 0 1 ) of the lightest neutralino is less than 65 GeV, excluding 86% of such models. The searches have limited impact on models with larger m( 0 1 ) due to either heavy electroweakinos or compressed mass spectra where the mass splittings between the produced particles and the lightest supersymmetric particle is small.