<p>We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles interacting with electrons using the DAMIC-M prototype detector at the Modane Underground Laboratory. The data feature a significantly lower detector single <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></mrow></math> rate (factor 50) compared to our previous search, while also accumulating a 10 times larger exposure of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mo>∼</mo><mn>1.3</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>kg</mi><mtext>−</mtext><mi>day</mi></mrow></math>. DM interactions in the skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are searched for as groups of two or three adjacent pixels with a total charge between 2 and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>4</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></math>. We find 144 candidates of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mn>2</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></mrow></math> and 1 candidate of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mn>4</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></mrow></math>, where 141.5 and 0.071, respectively, are expected from background. With no evidence of a DM signal, we place stringent constraints on DM particles with masses between 1 and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mn>1000</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>MeV</mi><mo>/</mo><msup><mrow><mi>c</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math> interacting with electrons through an ultralight or heavy mediator. For large ranges of DM masses below <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mn>1</mn><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi><mo>/</mo><msup><mrow><mi>c</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math>, we exclude theoretically motivated benchmark scenarios where hidden-sector particles are produced as a major component of DM in the Universe through the freeze-in or freeze-out mechanisms.</p>

United States

K. Aggarwal

I. Arnquist

Argentina

N. Avalos

France

X. Bertou

Spain

N. Castelló-Mor

A.E. Chavarria

J. Cuevas-Zepeda

A. Dastgheibi-Fard

C. De Dominicis

O. Deligny

J. Duarte-Campderros

E. Estrada

R. Gaïor

Switzerland

E.L. Gkougkousis

T. Hossbach

L. Iddir

B.J. Kavanagh

B. Kilminster

A. Lantero-Barreda

Canada

I. Lawson

A. Letessier-Selvon

H. Lin

P. Loaiza

A. Lopez-Virto

R. Lou

K.J. McGuire

S. Munagavalasa

J. Noonan

D. Norcini

S. Paul

P. Privitera

P. Robmann

B. Roach

M. Settimo

R. Smida

M. Traina

R. Vilar

R. Yajur

D. Venegas-Vargas

C. Zhu

Y. Zhu

Probing Benchmark Models of Hidden-Sector Dark Matter with DAMIC-M

Measurements of the total and differential Higgs boson production cross-sections, via $\textit{WH}$ and $\textit{ZH}$ associated production using $\textit{H}$ → $\textit{WW}$ → $\textit{ℓνℓν}$ and $\textit{H}$ → $\textit{WW}$ → $\textit{ℓνjj}$ decays, are presented. The analysis uses proton-proton events delivered by the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS detector between 2015 and 2018. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb . The sum of the $\textit{WH}$ and $\textit{ZH}$ cross-sections times the $\textit{H}$ → $\textit{WW}$ branching fraction is measured to be $$ {0.44}_{-0.09}^{+0.10}{\left(\textrm{stat}.\right)}_{-0.05}^{+0.06}\left(\textrm{syst}.\right) $$ pb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. Higgs boson production is further characterised through measurements of the differential cross-section as a function of the transverse momentum of the vector boson and in the framework of Simplified Template Cross-Sections.

G. Aad

Norway

E. Aakvaag

B. Abbott

United Arab Emirates

S. Abdelhameed

Germany

K. Abeling

N. Abicht

S. Abidi

M. Aboelela

Morocco

A. Aboulhorma

Israel

H. Abramowicz

H. Abreu

Y. Abulaiti

Italy

United Kingdom

B. Acharya

A. Ackermann

C. Adam Bourdarios

Poland

L. Adamczyk

S. Addepalli

M. Addison

J. Adelman

Türkiye

A. Adiguzel

T. Adye

A. Affolder

Y. Afik

M. Agaras

J. Agarwala

A. Aggarwal

Romania

C. Agheorghiesei

Azerbaijan

F. Ahmadov

W. Ahmed

S. Ahuja

China

X. Ai

G. Aielli

A. Aikot

M. Ait Tamlihat

B. Aitbenchikh

M. Akbiyik

Sweden

T. Åkesson

A. Akimov

Japan

D. Akiyama

N. Akolkar

S. Aktas

K. Khoury

G. Alberghi

J. Albert

P. Albicocco

G. Albouy

S. Alderweireldt

Z. Alegria

M. Aleksa

I. Aleksandrov

C. Alexa

Greece

T. Alexopoulos

F. Alfonsi

M. Algren

M. Alhroob

Czechia

B. Ali

Saudi Arabia

H. Ali

S. Ali

S. Alibocus

South Africa

M. Aliev

G. Alimonti

W. Alkakhi

C. Allaire

B. Allbrooke

J. Allen

Chile

C. Allendes Flores

P. Allport

A. Aloisio

F. Alonso

C. Alpigiani

Z. Alsolami

M. Alvarez Estevez

A. Alvarez Fernandez

M. Alves Cardoso

M. Alviggi

M. Aly

Brazil

Y. Amaral Coutinho

A. Ambler

C. Amelung

M. Amerl

C. Ames

D. Amidei

B. Amini

K. Amirie

Portugal

S. Amor Dos Santos

K. Amos

D. Amperiadou

S. An

V. Ananiev

C. Anastopoulos

T. Andeen

J. Anders

A. Anderson

S. Andrean

A. Andreazza

S. Angelidakis

A. Angerami

A. Anisenkov

A. Annovi

Measurements of the production cross-sections of a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson and decaying into $\textit{WW}$

Non-geometric flux vacua have recently been revisited, leading to the remarkable discovery of isolated 4D $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supersymmetric Minkowski vacua. These constructions rely on the non-renormalization of the superpotential, which is supported by heuristic arguments. Given the significance of verifying the existence of these isolated M-theory-like vacua, we present alternative symmetry-based arguments that arrive at the same conclusion. Additionally, we leverage these symmetries to argue for the existence of unstable dS solutions as well as supersymmetric AdS solutions.

Shi Chen

Damian Heisteeg

Cumrun Vafa

Symmetries and M-theory-like vacua in four dimensions

<p>A search is presented for hadronic signatures of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, with an emphasis on signatures of a strongly coupled hidden dark sector accessed via resonant production of a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>Z</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></math> mediator. The ATLAS experiment dataset collected at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 is used, consisting of proton-proton collisions at <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msqrt><mi>s</mi></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>13</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>TeV</mi></math> and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>140</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mi>fb</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math>. The <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>Z</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></math> mediator is considered to decay to two dark quarks, which each hadronize and decay to showers containing both dark and Standard Model particles, producing a topology of interacting and noninteracting particles within a jet known as “semivisible.” Machine learning methods are used to select these dark showers and reject the dominant background of mismeasured multijet events, including an anomaly detection approach to preserve broad sensitivity to a variety of BSM topologies. A resonance search is performed by fitting the transverse mass spectrum based on a functional form background estimation. No significant excess over the expected background is observed. Results are presented as limits on the production cross section of semivisible jet signals, parametrized by the fraction of invisible particles in the decay and the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>Z</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></math> mass, and by quantifying the significance of any generic Gaussian-shaped mass peak in the anomaly region.</p>

N.J. Abicht

S.H. Abidi

B.S. Acharya

S.V. Addepalli

M.J. Addison

A.A. Affolder

M.N. Agaras

T.P.A. Åkesson

A.V. Akimov

N.N. Akolkar

G.L. Alberghi

G.L. Albouy

Z.L. Alegria

CERN

I.N. Aleksandrov

H.M.J. Ali

S.W. Alibocus

B.M.M. Allbrooke

J.S. Allen

J.F. Allen

P.P. Allport

Z.M.K. Alsolami

M.G. Alviggi

C.G. Ames

Search for new physics in final states with semivisible jets or anomalous signatures using the ATLAS detector