Boosting low-mass hadronic resonances
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Searches for new hadronic resonances typically focus on high-mass spectra, due to overwhelming QCD backgrounds and detector trigger rates. We present a study of searches for relatively low-mass hadronic resonances at the LHC in the case that the resonance is boosted by recoiling against a well-measured high- probe such as a muon, photon or jet. The hadronic decay of the resonance is then reconstructed either as a single large-radius jet or as a resolved pair of standard narrow-radius jets, balanced in transverse momentum to the probe. We show that the existing 2015 LHC dataset of collisions with should already have powerful sensitivity to a generic model which couples only to quarks, for masses ranging from 20-500 GeV/c.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.07727,
title = {Boosting low-mass hadronic resonances},
author = {Chase Shimmin and Daniel Whiteson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07727},
year = {2016}
}