A sensitivity study of triboson production processes to dimension-6 EFT operators at the LHC
Abstract
We present the first parton-level study of anomalous effects in triboson production in both fully and semi-leptonic channels in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The sensitivity to anomalies induced by a minimal set of bosonic dimension-6 operators from the Warsaw basis is evaluated with specific analyses for each final state. A likelihood-based strategy is employed to assess the most sensitive kinematic observables per channel, where the contribution of Effective Field Theory operators is parameterized at either the linear or quadratic level. The impact of the mutual interference terms of pairs of operators on the sensitivity is also examined. This benchmark study explores the complementarity and overlap in sensitivity between different triboson measurements and paves the way for future analyses at the LHC experiments. The statistical combination of the considered final states allows setting stringent bounds on five bosonic Wilson coefficients.
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@article{arxiv.2303.18215,
title = {A sensitivity study of triboson production processes to dimension-6 EFT operators at the LHC},
author = {Riccardo Bellan and Saptaparna Bhattacharya and Giacomo Boldrini and Flavia Cetorelli and Pietro Govoni and Andrea Massironi and Alberto Mecca and Cristiano Tarricone and Antonio Vagnerini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.18215},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Submitted to JHEP (second version) Minor changes applied to address JHEP referee's comments:more detailed comparison with diboson results and discussion of the choice of specific dim.-6 operators;additional considerations on background components included and on dim.-8 operators in this context