%0 Journal Article %T Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Fassi, F. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Hernandez Jimenez, Y. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Irles Quiles, A. %A Kaci, M. %A King, M. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lacuesta, V. R. %A March, L. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Miñano, M. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moles-Valls, R. %A Oliver Garcia, E. %A Pedraza Lopez, S. %A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. %A Qin, G. %A Romero Adam, E. %A Ros, E. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Martinez, V. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valladolid Gallego, E. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Villaplana Perez, M. %A Vos, M. %J Physical Review D %D 2014 %V 90 %N 1 %I Amer Physical Soc %@ 1550-7998 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2014 %O WOS:000339169600002 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1840), last updated on Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:59:27 +0000 %X A search is presented for production of dark-matter particles recoiling against a leptonically decaying Z boson in 20.3 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with large missing transverse momentum and two oppositely charged electrons or muons consistent with the decay of a Z boson are analyzed. No excess above the Standard Model prediction is observed. Limits are set on the mass scale of the contact interaction as a function of the dark-matter particle mass using an effective field theory description of the interaction of dark matter with quarks or with Z bosons. Limits are also set on the coupling and mediator mass of a model in which the interaction is mediated by a scalar particle. %R 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1404.0051 %U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012004 %P 012004-21pp