Search for pair production of additional neutral scalars within the Inert Doublet Model in a final state with two electrons or two muons in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV
Using proton-proton collision data at 13 and 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector, this study performs the first dedicated search for pair-produced inert scalars in the Inert Doublet Model via a dilepton plus missing transverse momentum final state, finding no significant excess and setting 95% confidence level exclusion limits on the masses of the new neutral scalars.