Machine-Learning Analysis of Radiative Decays to Dark Matter at the LHC
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| author | Arganda, Ernesto Carena, Marcela Rios, Martín de los Perez, Andres D. Rocha, Duncan Seoane, Rosa M. Sandá Wagner, Carlos E. M. |
| author_facet | Arganda, Ernesto Carena, Marcela Rios, Martín de los Perez, Andres D. Rocha, Duncan Seoane, Rosa M. Sandá Wagner, Carlos E. M. |
| contents | The search for weakly interacting matter particles (WIMPs) is one of the main objectives of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). In this work we use Machine-Learning (ML) techniques to explore WIMP radiative decays into a Dark Matter (DM) candidate in a supersymmetric framework. The minimal supersymmetric WIMP sector includes the lightest neutralino that can provide the observed DM relic density through its co-annihilation with the second lightest neutralino and lightest chargino. Moreover, the direct DM detection cross section rates fulfill current experimental bounds and provide discovery targets for the same region of model parameters in which the radiative decay of the second lightest neutralino into a photon and the lightest neutralino is enhanced. This strongly motivates the search for radiatively decaying neutralinos which, however, suffers from strong backgrounds. We investigate the LHC reach in the search for these radiatively decaying particles by means of cut-based and ML methods and estimate its discovery potential in this well-motivated, new physics scenario. We demonstrate that using ML techniques would enable access to most of the parameter space unexplored by other searches. |
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| spellingShingle | Machine-Learning Analysis of Radiative Decays to Dark Matter at the LHC Arganda, Ernesto Carena, Marcela Rios, Martín de los Perez, Andres D. Rocha, Duncan Seoane, Rosa M. Sandá Wagner, Carlos E. M. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Machine Learning High Energy Physics - Experiment The search for weakly interacting matter particles (WIMPs) is one of the main objectives of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). In this work we use Machine-Learning (ML) techniques to explore WIMP radiative decays into a Dark Matter (DM) candidate in a supersymmetric framework. The minimal supersymmetric WIMP sector includes the lightest neutralino that can provide the observed DM relic density through its co-annihilation with the second lightest neutralino and lightest chargino. Moreover, the direct DM detection cross section rates fulfill current experimental bounds and provide discovery targets for the same region of model parameters in which the radiative decay of the second lightest neutralino into a photon and the lightest neutralino is enhanced. This strongly motivates the search for radiatively decaying neutralinos which, however, suffers from strong backgrounds. We investigate the LHC reach in the search for these radiatively decaying particles by means of cut-based and ML methods and estimate its discovery potential in this well-motivated, new physics scenario. We demonstrate that using ML techniques would enable access to most of the parameter space unexplored by other searches. |
| title | Machine-Learning Analysis of Radiative Decays to Dark Matter at the LHC |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Machine Learning High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13799 |