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We study collider signatures of a class of dark matter models with a GeV-scale dark Z ′. At hadron colliders, the production of dark matter particles naturally leads to associated production of the Z ′, which can appear as a narrow jet after it decays hadronically. Contrary to the usual mono-jet signal from initial state radiation, the final state radiation of dark matter can generate the signature of a mono-Z ′ jet plus missing transverse energy. Performing a jet-substructure analysis to tag the Z ′ jet, we show that these Z ′ jets can be distinguished from QCD jets at high significance. Compared to mono-jets, a dedicated search for mono-Z ′ jet events can lead to over an order of magnitude stronger bounds on the interpreted dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections.
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Bai, Y., Bourbeau, J. & Lin, T. Dark matter searches with a mono-Z′ jet. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 205 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2015)205
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