scholarly journals Exclusion Limits on a Scalar Decaying to Photons and Distinguishing Its Production Mechanisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanumoy Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Resonance Search ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Production Mechanisms

LHC run-II has a great potential to search for new resonances in the diphoton channel. Latest 13 TeV data already put stringent limits on the cross sections in the diphoton channel assuming the resonance is produced through the gluon-gluon fusion. Many beyond the Standard Model (SM) theories predict TeV-scale scalars, which copiously decay to diphotons. Apart from the gluon-gluon fusion production, these scalars can also be dominantly produced in other ways too at the LHC, namely, through the quark-quark fusion or the gauge boson fusions like the photon-photon, photon-Z, WW, or ZZ fusions. In this paper we use an effective field theory approach where a heavy scalar can be produced in various ways and recast the latest ATLAS diphoton resonance search to put model-independent limits on its mass and effective couplings to the SM particles. If a new scalar is discovered at the LHC, it would be very important to identify its production mechanism in order to probe the nature of the underlying theory. We show that combining various kinematic variables in a multivariate analysis can be very powerful to distinguish different production mechanisms from one another.

scholarly journals Diphoton resonances at the LHC

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (27) ◽  
pp. 1730024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiliano Molinaro ◽  
Natascia Vignaroli
Keyword(s):  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Independent Analysis ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Production Mechanisms

We review the current status of searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model in the diphoton channel at the LHC and estimate the reach with future collected data. We perform a model independent analysis based on an effective field theory approach and different production mechanisms. As an illustrative example, we apply our results to a scenario of minimal composite dynamics.

scholarly journals Long-lived heavy neutral leptons at the LHC: four-fermion single-NR operators

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Beltrán ◽  
Giovanna Cottin ◽  
Juan Carlos Helo ◽  
Martin Hirsch ◽  
Arsenii Titov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Model Independent

Abstract Interest in searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario, HNLs are produced and decay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM) spectrum. However, many SM extensions with HNLs have been discussed in the literature, which sometimes change expectations for LHC sensitivities drastically. In the NRSMEFT, one extends the SM effective field theory with operators including SM singlet fermions, which allows to study HNL phenomenology in a “model independent” way. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of ATLAS to HNLs in the NRSMEFT for four-fermion operators with a single HNL. These operators might dominate both production and decay of HNLs, and we find that new physics scales in excess of 20 TeV could be probed at the high-luminosity LHC.

scholarly journals Mapping Effective Field Theory to Multifractal Geometry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ervin Goldfain
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Partition Function ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Euclidean Metric ◽  
Classical Chaos ◽  
The Standard Model

Fractals and multifractals are well-known trademarks of nonlinear dynamics and classical chaos. The goal of this work is to tentatively uncover the unforeseen path from multifractals and selfsimilarity to the framework of effective field theory (EFT). An intriguing finding is that the partition function of multifractal geometry includes the signature of non-Euclidean metric. Our results also suggest that multifractal geometry may offer insights into the non-renormalizable interactions presumed to develop beyond the Standard Model scale.

scholarly journals Effective Theory Approach to Direct Detection of Dark Matter

2020 ◽  
pp. 650-688
Author(s):  
Junji Hisano
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Standard Model

It is now certain that dark matter exists in the Universe. However, we do not know its nature, nor are there dark matter candidates in the standard model of particle physics or astronomy However, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in models beyond the standard model are one of the leading candidates available to provide explanation. The dark matter direct detection experiments, in which the nuclei recoiled by WIMPs are sought, are one of the methods to elucidate the nature of dark matter. This chapter introduces an effective field theory (EFT) approach in order to evaluate the nucleon–WIMP elastic scattering cross section.

scholarly journals Gluon-fusion Higgs production in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Deutschmann ◽  
Claude Duhr ◽  
Fabio Maltoni ◽  
Eleni Vryonidou
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Higgs Production ◽  
The Standard Model

scholarly journals The rare and forbidden: Testing physics beyond the standard model with Mu3e

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Muon Beam ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Pixel Sensors ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Detailed Simulation ◽  
Momentum Acceptance ◽  
Lepton Flavour

The upcoming Mu3e experiment aims to search for the lepton flavour violating decay \boldsymbol{\muposeeemath} with an unprecedented final sensitivity of one signal decay in \boldsymbol{\num{e16}} observed muon decays by making use of an innovative experimental design based on novel ultra-thin silicon pixel sensors. In a first phase, the experiment is operated at an existing muon beam line with rates of up to \boldsymbol{\num{e8}} muons per second. Detailed simulation studies confirm the feasibility of background-free operation and project single event sensitivities in the order of \boldsymbol{\num{e-15}} for signal decays modelled in an effective field theory approach. The precise tracking of the decay electrons and large geometric and momentum acceptance of Mu3e enable searches for physics beyond the Standard Model in further signatures. Examples of which are searches for lepton flavour violating two-body decays of the muon into an electron and an undetected boson as well as for electron-positron resonances in \boldsymbol{\muposeeenunumath} which could result for instance from a dark photon decay. The Mu3e experiment is expected to be competitive in all of these channels already in phase I.

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