Search for a dark matter candidate produced in association with a single top quark in ppˉp\bar{p} collisions at s=1.96\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

Collaboration
Feb, 2012
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 201802
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-12-053-E
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We report a new search for dark matter in a data sample of an integrated luminosity of 7.7 fb1^{-1} of Tevatron ppˉp\bar{p} collisions at s=1.96\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV, collected by the CDF II detector. We search for production of a dark matter candidate, DD, in association with a single top quark. We consider the hadronic decay mode of the top quark exclusively, yielding a final state of three jets with missing transverse energy. The data are consistent with the standard model; we thus set 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section of the process ppˉt+Dp\bar{p}\rightarrow t+D as a function of the mass of the dark-matter candidate. The limits are approximately 0.5 pb for a dark-matter particle with mass in the range of 0-150 GeV/c2c^{2}.
  • 13.85.Rm
  • 14.80.-j
  • 95.35.+d
  • 12.60.-i
  • anti-p p: interaction
  • dark matter: search for
  • top: single production
  • dark matter: associated production
  • top: decay
  • final state: (3jet)