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Dissecting Multi Photon Resonances at the Large Hadron Collider
Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:30am - 12:30pm
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Description: We examine the phenomenology of the production, at the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC), of the production of a heavy resonance $X$, which decays via other new on-shell particles $n$ into multi- (i.e.\ three or more) photon final states. In the limit that $n$ is light compared to $X$, the multi-photon final state may dominantly appear as a two photon final state because the $\gamma$s from the $n$ decay are highly collinear and are not resolved. We discuss how to discriminate this scenario from $X \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$: rather than discarding non-isolated photons, it is better to relax the isolation criterion and instead form photon jet substructure variables. The spins of $X$ and $n$ leave their imprint upon the distribution of pseudorapidity gap $\Delta \eta$ between the apparent two photon states. Depending on the total integrated luminosity, this can be used in many cases to claim discrimination, although the case where $X$ and $n$ are both scalar particles cannot be discriminated from the direct $X \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ decay in this manner. In addition, one can bound the mass of $n$ by the mass of each photon jet.
Ref: Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.9, 595
URL: http://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=15098
Location Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini" 1G09