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Collider constraints on light pseudoscalars

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-05-20 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the bounds on light pseudoscalars that arise from a variety of collider searches. Special attention is thereby devoted to the mass regions [3,5]GeV[3, 5] \, {\rm GeV} and [9,11]GeV[9,11] \, {\rm GeV}, in which a meaningful theoretical description has to include estimates of non-perturbative effects such as the mixing of the pseudoscalar with QCD bound states. A compendium of formulas that allows to deal with the relevant corrections is provided. It should prove useful for the interpretation of future LHC searches for light CP-odd spin-0 states.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.02156,
  title  = {Collider constraints on light pseudoscalars},
  author = {Ulrich Haisch and Jernej F. Kamenik and Augustinas Malinauskas and Michael Spira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02156},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; v3: new draft includes the constraints from CMS-PAS-HIG-17-024 and CMS-PAS-HIG-17-029; a similar version has been published in JHEP. also contained in arXiv:1803.10379

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