TY - JOUR
T1 - Hunting the dark Higgs
AU - Duerr, Michael
AU - Grohsjean, Alexander
AU - Kahlhoefer, Felix
AU - Penning, Bjoern
AU - Schmidt-Hoberg, Kai
AU - Schwanenberger, Christian
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - We discuss a novel signature of dark matter production at the LHC resulting from the emission of an additional Higgs boson in the dark sector. The presence of such a dark Higgs boson is motivated simultaneously by the need to generate the masses of the particles in the dark sector and the possibility to relax constraints from the dark matter relic abundance by opening up a new annihilation channel. If the dark Higgs boson decays into Standard Model states via a small mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson, one obtains characteristic large-radius jets in association with missing transverse momentum that can be used to efficiently discriminate signal from backgrounds. We present the sensitivities achievable in LHC searches for dark Higgs bosons with already collected data and demonstrate that such searches can probe large regions of parameter space that are inaccessible to conventional mono-jet or di-jet searches.
AB - We discuss a novel signature of dark matter production at the LHC resulting from the emission of an additional Higgs boson in the dark sector. The presence of such a dark Higgs boson is motivated simultaneously by the need to generate the masses of the particles in the dark sector and the possibility to relax constraints from the dark matter relic abundance by opening up a new annihilation channel. If the dark Higgs boson decays into Standard Model states via a small mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson, one obtains characteristic large-radius jets in association with missing transverse momentum that can be used to efficiently discriminate signal from backgrounds. We present the sensitivities achievable in LHC searches for dark Higgs bosons with already collected data and demonstrate that such searches can probe large regions of parameter space that are inaccessible to conventional mono-jet or di-jet searches.
KW - Beyond Standard Model
KW - Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018358549&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)143
DO - 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)143
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85018358549
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 143
ER -