ATLAS Violating CP Effectively
Abstract
CP violation beyond the Standard Model (SM) is a crucial missing piece for explaining the observed matter-antimatter symmetry in the Universe. Recently, the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has performed an analysis of electroweak production, thereby excluding the SM locally at 95\% confidence level in the measurement of CP-sensitive observables. We take the excess' interpretation in terms of anomalous gauge-Higgs interactions at face value and discuss further steps that are required to scrutinize its origin. In particular, we discuss the relevance of multi-boson production using adapted angular observables to show how they can be used to directly tension the reported excess in a more comprehensive analysis. To connect the excess to a concrete UV scenario for which the underlying assumptions of the analysis are valid, we identify vector-like leptons as a candidate theory consistent with the observed CP-odd Wilson coefficient hierarchy observed by ATLAS. We perform a complete one-loop matching calculation to motivate further model-specific and correlated new physics searches. In parallel, we provide estimates of the sensitivity reach of the LHC's high luminosity phase for this particular scenario of CP-violation in light of electroweak precision and Run-2 Higgs data. These provide strong constraints on the model's CP-even low-energy phenomenology, but also inform the size of the CP-odd SM deformation indirectly via our model hypothesis.
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@article{arxiv.2009.13394,
title = {ATLAS Violating CP Effectively},
author = {Supratim Das Bakshi and Joydeep Chakrabortty and Christoph Englert and Michael Spannowsky and Panagiotis Stylianou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13394},
year = {2021}
}
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22 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; version published in PRD;