Exploring the Inert Doublet Model through the dijet plus missing transverse energy channel at the LHC

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In this study of the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), we propose that the dijet + missing transverse energy channel at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be an effective way of searching for the scalar particles of the IDM.

• This channel receives contributions from gauge boson fusion, and $t-$channel production, along with contributions from $H^+$ associated production.
• We perform the analysis including study of the Standard Model (SM) background with assumed systematic uncertainty, and optimise the selection criteria employing suitable cuts on the kinematic variables to maximise the signal significance.
• We find that with high luminosity option of the LHC, this channel has the potential to probe the IDM in the mass range of up to about 400 GeV, which is not accessible through other leptonic channels.