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Detecting quark anomalous electroweak couplings at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-03-30 v1

Abstract

We study the dimension-6 quark anomalous electroweak couplings in the formulation of linearly realized effective Lagrangian. We investigate the constraints on these anomalous couplings from the ppW+Wpp \rightarrow W^+W^- process in detail at the LHC. With additional kinematic cuts, we find that the 14 TeV LHC can provide a test of anomalous couplings of O(0.11)TeV2O(0.1-1)\,{\rm TeV}^{-2}. The ppZZ/Zγ/γγpp \rightarrow ZZ/Z\gamma/\gamma\gamma processes can provide a good complement as they are sensitive to those anomalous couplings which do not affect the ppW+Wpp \rightarrow W^+W^- process. Those processes that only contain anomalous triple vertices, like ppWlνlp p \to W^* \to l \nu_l or ppγ/Zl+lp p \to \gamma^* / Z^* \to l^+ l^-, can improve the sensitivities to O(0.010.1)TeV2O(0.01-0.1)\,{\rm TeV}^{-2}. We also study the kinematic differences between different anomalous couplings and discuss the potential of the χ2\chi^2-analysis to distinguish them. Finally, we discuss the detection ability of the possible future 100 TeV proton-proton collider(SPPC), and find that the detection sensitivity is improved by about one order of magnitude compared with the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1511.09176,
  title  = {Detecting quark anomalous electroweak couplings at the LHC},
  author = {Sheng-Zhi Zhao and Bin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09176},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages, 7 figures

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