scholarly journals PHYSICS OF W BOSONS AT LEP2

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 3277-3312 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIO CAMPANELLI
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Branching Fraction ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
W Bosons ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Threshold Region ◽  
Indirect Determination ◽  
The Matrix

After the first observations of W bosons in leptonic interactions, about 4000 WW candidate events per experiment have been collected at LEP2. This data allows the measurement of the WW production cross section at different center-of-mass energies, as well as W decay branching fractions. The W hadronic branching fraction can be converted into a test of the unitarity of the CKM matrix, or into an indirect determination of the matrix element |V cs |. A more direct measurement coming from charm tagging is also performed. The W mass has been measured via the cross section (in the threshold region) and the direct reconstruction of the W decay products, using different techniques to account for the distortions due to experimental effects. The main systematic error to the mass reconstruction in the fully hadronic channel comes from QCD effects like Color reconnections and Bose–Einstein correlations, extensively studied in WW events. In e+e- collisions W pairs can be produced in s-channel via a three-vector boson vertex, so a direct study of the trilinear gauge boson couplings is possible. Modification of WW cross section and distributions of W production and decay angles would be an indication of nonstandard couplings, thus a first hint for the presence of new physics.

scholarly journals Defiducialization: providing experimental measurements for accurate fixed-order predictions

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Glazov
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Boson Production ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Full Phase Space ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Fixed Order

AbstractAn experimental procedure is proposed to perform measurements of differential cross sections for vector boson production which can be compared to fixed-order QCD predictions with improved accuracy. The procedure relies on applying theoretical acceptance corrections computed as a function of the transverse momentum of the W/Z boson, $$p_T$$ p T , to the experimental measurement, rather than comparing data directly against fiducial fixed-order predictions. It is demonstrated that, contrary to standard fiducial computations, these acceptance factors vary little at low $$p_T$$ p T , so they can be reliably computed using fixed-order perturbation theory. An example analysis is performed using the ATLAS measurement of the Z-boson production cross section at center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The resulting full phase space measurement of the cross section differential in the boson rapidity is compared to theoretical predictions computed with next-to-next-to leading-order accuracy in QCD. Further extensions of the approach which include different types of measurements and improved theoretical predictions are discussed.

scholarly journals Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into two lighter Higgs bosons in the ττbb final state at 13 TeV

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
A. Tumasyan ◽  
W. Adam ◽  
J. W. Andrejkovic ◽  
T. Bergauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Branching Fractions ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Final State ◽  
Signal Process ◽  
Center Of Mass Energy ◽  
Heavy Higgs Boson

Abstract A search for a heavy Higgs boson H decaying into the observed Higgs boson h with a mass of 125 GeV and another Higgs boson hS is presented. The h and hS bosons are required to decay into a pair of tau leptons and a pair of b quarks, respectively. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. Mass ranges of 240–3000 GeV for mH and 60–2800 GeV for $$ {m}_{{\mathrm{h}}_{\mathrm{S}}} $$ m h S are explored in the search. No signal has been observed. Model independent 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process are set with a sensitivity ranging from 125 fb (for mH = 240 GeV) to 2.7 fb (for mH = 1000 GeV). These limits are compared to maximally allowed products of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model.

On the model dependence of fiducial cross-section measurements

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (38) ◽  
pp. 2050065
Author(s):  
Gabriel Facini ◽  
Kyrylo Merkotan ◽  
Matthias Schott ◽  
Alexander Sydorenko
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Model Bias ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Standard Model Cross Section ◽  
The Standard Model

Fiducial production cross-section measurements of Standard Model processes, in principle, provide constraints on new physics scenarios via a comparison of the predicted Standard Model cross-section and the observed cross-section. This approach received significant attention in recent years, both from direct constraints on specific models and the interpretation of measurements in the view of effective field theories. A generic problem in the reinterpretation of Standard Model measurements is the corrections application of to data to account for detector effects. These corrections inherently assume the Standard Model to be valid, thus implying a model bias of the final result. In this work, we study the size of this bias by studying several new physics models and fiducial phase–space regions. The studies are based on fast detector simulations of a generic multi-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider. We conclude that the model bias in the associated reinterpretations is negligible only in specific cases, however, typically on the same level as systematic uncertainties of the available measurements.

Production cross-section of heavy flavored hadrons in pp collision at s = 7 TeV

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (19) ◽  
pp. 1950150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ajaz ◽  
Irfan Khan ◽  
M. K. Suleymanov
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Transverse Momentum ◽  
Differential Cross Section ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Momentum Distribution ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Transverse Momentum Distribution ◽  
Mass Frame

The transverse momentum distribution of the differential production cross-sections of heavy flavored charm hadrons [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] in pp collisions at 7 TeV are simulated. Predictions of DPMJETIII.17-1, HIJING1.383 and Sibyll2.3c are compared to the differential cross-section measurements of the LHCb experimental data presented in the region of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], where the pp center of mass frame is used to measure the transverse momentum and rapidity. The models reproduce only some regions of [Formula: see text] and/or bins of [Formula: see text] but none of them predict completely all the [Formula: see text] bins over the entire [Formula: see text] range.

scholarly journals Systematic study of diphoton resonance at 750 GeV from sgoldstino

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (26) ◽  
pp. 1650151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Ding ◽  
Yizhou Fan ◽  
Li Huang ◽  
Chuang Li ◽  
Tianjun Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decay Width ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
Decay Length

The ATLAS and CMS Collaborations of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have reported an excess of events in diphoton channel with invariant mass of about 750 GeV. With low energy supersymmetry breaking, we systematically consider the sgoldstino scalar S as the new resonance, which is a linear combination of the CP-even scalar [Formula: see text] and CP-odd pseudoscalar [Formula: see text]. Because we show that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] can be degenerated or have large mass splitting, we consider two cases for all the following three scenarios: (1) Single resonance, [Formula: see text] is the 750 GeV resonance decays to a pair of 1 GeV pseudoscalar [Formula: see text] with suitable decay length, these two [Formula: see text] decay into collimated pair of photons which cannot be distinguished at the LHC and may appear as diphotons instead of four photons. (2) Twin resonances, [Formula: see text] with a mass difference of about 40 GeV and both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] decay into diphoton pairs. For productions, we consider three scenarios: (I) vector-boson fusion; (II) gluon–gluon fusion; (III) [Formula: see text] pair production. In all these scenarios with two kinds of resonances, we find the parameter space that satisfies the diphoton production cross-section from 3 to 13 fb and all the other experimental constraints. And we address the decay width as well. In particular, in the third scenario, we observe that the production cross-section is small but the decay width of [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] can be from 40 to 60 GeV. Even if the 750 GeV diphoton excesses were not confirmed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, we point out that our proposal can be used to explain the current and future diphoton excesses.

SEARCH FOR CHARGINOS AND NEUTRALINOS WITH THE DELPHI DETECTOR AT LEP

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (supp01b) ◽  
pp. 775-777
Author(s):  
◽  
THOMAS ALDERWEIRELD
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross Section ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Branching Fraction ◽  
Centre Of Mass ◽  
Mass Energy ◽  
Delphi Detector ◽  
Upper Limit

Search for charginos and neutralinos are presented, based on the data samples recorded in 1999 and 2000 by the DELPHI detector at centre-of-mass energies from 192 to 209 GeV. No evidence for a signal was found. The lower chargino mass limits are 5-6 GeV /c2 higher than those obtained at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. The (μ, M 2) MSSM domain excluded by combining the chargino searches with neutralino searches at the Z resonance implies a limit on the mass of the lightest neutralino which, for a heavy sneutrino, is constrained to be above 37.6 GeV /c2 for tan β≥1. Upper limit at 95% CL on the neutralino production cross-section times branching fraction are derived.

scholarly journals Search for single production of vectorlike top partners through th channel at the HE-LHC and FCC-hh

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi-Yan Tian ◽  
Liu-Feng Du ◽  
Yao-Bei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Branching Fraction ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Single Production ◽  
Integrated Luminosity

AbstractThe vectorlike top partners are potential signature of some new physics beyond the Standard Model at the TeV scale. In this paper, we propose to search for the vectorlike T quark with charge 2/3 in the framework of a simplified model where the top partners only couples with the third generation of Standard Model quarks. We investigate the observability for electroweak production of a vectorlike T quark in association with a standard model bottom quark through the process $$pp \rightarrow T\bar{b}j$$ p p → T b ¯ j with the subsequent decay mode of $$T\rightarrow t(\rightarrow b W^+\rightarrow b \ell ^{+} \nu _{\ell })h( \rightarrow \gamma \gamma )$$ T → t ( → b W + → b ℓ + ν ℓ ) h ( → γ γ ) , at the proposed High Energy Large Hadron Collider (HE-LHC) and Future Circular Collider in hadron-hadron mode (FCC-hh) including the realistic detector effects. The 95% confidence level excluded regions and the $$5\sigma $$ 5 σ discovery reach in the parameter plane of $$\kappa _{T}-m_T$$ κ T - m T , are respectively obtained at the HE-LHC with the integrated luminosity of 15 ab$$^{-1}$$ - 1 and the FCC-hh with the integrated luminosity of 30 ab$$^{-1}$$ - 1 . We also analyze the projected sensitivity in terms of the production cross section times branching fraction at the HE-LHC and FCC-hh.

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