IN2P3 (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes

ANR project DMwithLLPatLHC

Search for Dark Matter with Long Lived Particles at the LHC

Selected within the context of the ANR "Appel à projets générique 2021, Projet de Recherche Collaborative"

 

 

Summary

Long-lived particles are predicted in many dark matter models, including two emerging categories which are the focus of this project: axion-like particles (ALPs) and dark hadrons. These currently have limited coverage at colliders: there is hence an opportunity to gain access to completely new regions of the new physics parameter space. For the ALP, we will focus on its decay into a photon pair either promptly or inside the calorimeters. For the dark hadrons, the peculiar characteristics of their jets will be exploited: different number of tracks, jet substructure, development of the shower in the calorimeters that could come from the late decay of long-lived dark sector hadrons,... These searches will not only be developed within ATLAS, but theoretical aspects allowing to link phenomenology to underlying theory parameters will be addressed.

These searches use photons and jets, which both interact with matter as a particle shower governed by stochastic processes, even if with different underlying physics. Advanced neural network techniques will be developed to use the shower constituent information to improve on the performances; to improve training the uncertainties on input variables will also be considered. By building such tools based on low-level information (from the photon and jet constituents) rather than high-level information (from the photons and jets directly), we aim to improve significantly the precision of the measurement of energy, direction and mass with respect to existing techniques. For the same reasons, such tools will allow for better identification of signal photons and jets and better background rejection.

A final aim of this project will be to make it possible to reinterpret the results of the searches described above in terms of as many other models as possible. Setting up a collaboration between theorists and experimentalists from the beginning of the inception of the analyses will allow for the most general possible interpretation of the results. This includes an optimal choice of benchmarks, and will at the same time allow for gathering all of the necessary information to reinterpret the results. To achieve this, we will develop an appropriate software framework in the initial stages of the proposal, and test it by recasting existing ATLAS long-lived particle analyses.

 

Partners

LPSC Grenoble: Marie-Hélène GENEST, Guillaume ALBOUY, Pierre-Antoine DELSART, Jean-Baptiste DE VIVIE DE REGIE, Luka SELEM, Thomas WOJTKOWSKI

(Previously: Nathan LALLOUÉ, Ana Paula PEREIRA PEIXOTO)

LPNHE Paris: Bertrand LAFORGE, Artur CORDEIRO OUDOT CHOI, Edmar DE SOUZA, Mykola KHANDOGA, Bogdan MALAESCU, José OCARIZ, Lydia ROOS, Romain VAN DEN BROUCKE [+ visitors* / partners from Brazil: Luiz-Eduardo BALABRAM-FILHO* (UFRJ), Yara DO AMARAL COUNTINHO (UFRJ), Mateus HUFNAGEL MARANHA de FARIA* (UFJF)]

LPTHE Paris: Diyar AGIN, Benjamin FUKS, Mark GOODSELL, Filippo SALA, Taylor MURPHY

Scientific leader of each lab, Project coordinator

 

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Meetings

April 12-13th 2022 Kick-off meeting in Paris; indico.

November 16th 2022 Zoom meeting indico

January 9-10th 2023 Meeting at LPSC Grenoble; indico.

February 17th 2023 Zoom meerting indico

April 12-13th 2023 Meeting in Paris: indico.

July 3rd 2023 Zoom meeting indico

September 14th 2023 Zoom meeting indico

January 8th-10th 2024 Meeting in Grenoble indico

Scientific production

Publications

  • D. Agin, B. Fuks, M. D. Goodsell & T. Murphy, Monojets reveal overlapping excesses for light compressed higgsinos,  arXiv:2311.17149
  • ATLAS Collaboration, Search for Resonant Production of Dark Quarks in the Di-jet Final State with the ATLAS Detector, JHEP02(2024)128, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03944.
  • Elsa Guy et al. (incl. G. Albouy), JRJC 2022 - Journées de Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs. Book of Proceedings. 2023. ⟨hal-04118967⟩
  • ATLAS Collaboration,Search for boosted diphoton resonances in the 10 to 70 GeV mass range using 138 fb−1 of 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, arXiv:2211.04172, submitted to JHEP
    • superseding: ATLAS Collaboration, Search for boosted resonances in the 10 to 70 GeV mass range and decaying into two photons using 138 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2022-018
  • G. Albouy et al (M-H. Genest & S. Kulkarni editors), Theory, phenomenology, and experimental avenues for dark showers: a Snowmass 2021 report, Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 12, arXiv:2203.09503.
  • T. Bose et al, Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13128

Talks

Datasets, codes

  • T. Wojtkowski, 2023, "Implementation of a search for new dijet resonances (139 fb-1; ATLAS-EXOT-2019-03)", https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/KHJ1MW, Open Data @ UCLouvain, V1
  • T. Wojtkowski and S. Sinha, 2024, "Implementation of a search for semi-visible jet production (139/fb; ATLAS-EXOT-2022-37)", https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/AFYF5Y, Open Data @ UCLouvain, V1

Teaching, outreach

Acknowledgements

All papers should mention:

"AUTHOR acknowledges the support of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), under grant ANR-21-CE31-0013 (project DMwithLLPatLHC)."