Speaker
Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez
(Fermilab)
Description
A search for narrow vector resonances decaying to quarks is presented using events
collected in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with the CMS detector at the
LHC. The data sample, collected in 2016, corresponds to an integrated luminosity
of 35.9 fb−1. The hypothetical resonance is produced with high transverse momentum
such that the decay products of the resonance are merged into a single jet. The
resulting experimental signature is an enhancement over background processes in
the distribution of the invariant mass of the jet. No evidence for resonant particles are
observed within the targeted mass range from 50-300 GeV. Upper limits at a 95% con-
fidence level are set on the production cross-section of leptophobic vector resonances.
Results are presented in a mass-coupling phase space and are the most sensitive to
date, extending previous limits below 100 GeV. The limits are also presented as functions
of dark matter mass, in a simplified model of interactions between quarks and
dark matter with a vector mediator.
Primary author
Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez
(Fermilab)