Asymmetries in invisible Dark Matter mediator production associated with $t \bar{t}$ final states

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Main Authors: Chalbaud, E., Silva, Rui M., Onofre, António, Gonçalo, Ricardo, Fiolhais, Miguel C. N.
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author Chalbaud, E.
Silva, Rui M.
Onofre, António
Gonçalo, Ricardo
Fiolhais, Miguel C. N.
author_facet Chalbaud, E.
Silva, Rui M.
Onofre, António
Gonçalo, Ricardo
Fiolhais, Miguel C. N.
contents In this paper, we propose two sets of different CP-sensitive observables inspired by the Higgs production in association with the top quark. We employ a Dark Matter simplified model that couples a scalar mediator with top quarks. The reconstruction of the kinematic variables is presented at NLO accuracy for events associated with this massive scalar particle, which is assumed to be vanishing to invisible decays in a detector such as ATLAS. We build these observables by taking advantage of the similarity between the scalar coupling with the top quark and the factorization theorem in the total scattering amplitude, in order to represent the basis in which the phase space is parameterized. A twofold approach employs the direct implementation of the four-momentum phase space measure in building CP sensitive observables such as $b_{2}$ for the Higgs, and the spin polarization of the top-quark decays in the narrow width approximation for the employed model. We studied the asymmetries of these distributions to test for any improvement in increasing the exclusion region for the $g_{u_{33}}^S-g_{u_{33}}^P$ parameters associated with this vanishing scalar particle. We have found no significant effect in the exclusion limits by using the forward-backward asymmetry distributions and the full-shaped ones. Considering the case of an invisible mediator with mass of 10$^{-2}$ GeV for a luminosity of 300 fb$^{-1}$ expected at the end of Run 3, the best limits for $g_{u_{33}}^S$ and $g_{u_{33}}^P$ at NLO accuracy were obtained using the variables ${\tilde{b}}_{2}^{\widehat{y}}$ and $b_{2}$ respectively, with corresponding limits set to $[-0.0425, 0.0425] $ and $[-0.83, 0.83]$ at $68\%$ CL.
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spellingShingle Asymmetries in invisible Dark Matter mediator production associated with $t \bar{t}$ final states
Chalbaud, E.
Silva, Rui M.
Onofre, António
Gonçalo, Ricardo
Fiolhais, Miguel C. N.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In this paper, we propose two sets of different CP-sensitive observables inspired by the Higgs production in association with the top quark. We employ a Dark Matter simplified model that couples a scalar mediator with top quarks. The reconstruction of the kinematic variables is presented at NLO accuracy for events associated with this massive scalar particle, which is assumed to be vanishing to invisible decays in a detector such as ATLAS. We build these observables by taking advantage of the similarity between the scalar coupling with the top quark and the factorization theorem in the total scattering amplitude, in order to represent the basis in which the phase space is parameterized. A twofold approach employs the direct implementation of the four-momentum phase space measure in building CP sensitive observables such as $b_{2}$ for the Higgs, and the spin polarization of the top-quark decays in the narrow width approximation for the employed model. We studied the asymmetries of these distributions to test for any improvement in increasing the exclusion region for the $g_{u_{33}}^S-g_{u_{33}}^P$ parameters associated with this vanishing scalar particle. We have found no significant effect in the exclusion limits by using the forward-backward asymmetry distributions and the full-shaped ones. Considering the case of an invisible mediator with mass of 10$^{-2}$ GeV for a luminosity of 300 fb$^{-1}$ expected at the end of Run 3, the best limits for $g_{u_{33}}^S$ and $g_{u_{33}}^P$ at NLO accuracy were obtained using the variables ${\tilde{b}}_{2}^{\widehat{y}}$ and $b_{2}$ respectively, with corresponding limits set to $[-0.0425, 0.0425] $ and $[-0.83, 0.83]$ at $68\%$ CL.
title Asymmetries in invisible Dark Matter mediator production associated with $t \bar{t}$ final states
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10852