Particle-level measurements, especially of differential cross-sections, made in fiducial regions of phase-space have a high degree of model-independence and can therefore be used to give information about a wide variety of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics implemented in Monte Carlo generators, using a broad range of final states. The Contur package is used to make such comparisons. We summarise a snapshot of current results for a number of BSM scenarios; a UV complete model in which the global Baryon-number minus Lepton-number symmetry is gauged; several Dark Matter simplified models, and two generic light scalar models.
@article{arxiv.1902.03067,
title = {BSM constraints from model-independent measurements: A Contur Update},
author = {J. M. Butterworth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03067},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Presented at Kruger 2018: Discovery Physics at the LHC (new version includes minor text fixes from reviewer, update to published version of Fig.1, and correction to MCnet acknowledgement)