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TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Barton, A.E.
AU - Bertram, I.A.
AU - Borissov, G.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.
AU - Fox, H.
AU - Henderson, R.C.W.
AU - Jones, R.W.L.
AU - Kartvelishvili, V.
AU - Long, R.E.
AU - Love, P.A.
AU - Muenstermann, D.
AU - Sanderswood, Izaac
AU - Smizanska, M.
AU - Tee, A.S.
AU - Wharton, A.M.
AU - Whitmore, B.W.
AU - Yexley, Melissa
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - This paper presents a search for dark matter in the context of a two-Higgs-doublet model together with an additional pseudoscalar mediator, a, which decays into the dark-matter particles. Processes where the pseudoscalar mediator is produced in association with a single top quark in the 2HDM+a model are explored for the first time at the LHC. Several final states which include either one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and a significant amount of missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment at s√=13 TeV during LHC Run 2 (2015–2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. No significant excess above the Standard Model predictions is found. The results are expressed as 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of the signal models considered.
AB - This paper presents a search for dark matter in the context of a two-Higgs-doublet model together with an additional pseudoscalar mediator, a, which decays into the dark-matter particles. Processes where the pseudoscalar mediator is produced in association with a single top quark in the 2HDM+a model are explored for the first time at the LHC. Several final states which include either one or two charged leptons (electrons or muons) and a significant amount of missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS experiment at s√=13 TeV during LHC Run 2 (2015–2018), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. No significant excess above the Standard Model predictions is found. The results are expressed as 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of the signal models considered.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09566-y
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09566-y
M3 - Journal article
VL - 81
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 10
M1 - 860
ER -