Search for dark matter particles produced in association with a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

Understand

A search for dark matter (DM) particles is performed using events with a Higgs boson candidate and large missing transverse momentum.

• The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$.
• The search is performed in five Higgs boson decay channels: h $\to \mathrm{b\bar{b}}$, $\gamma\gamma$, $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$, W$^{+}$W$^{-}$, and ZZ.
• The results from the individual channels are combined to maximize the sensitivity of the analysis.