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Exotic diboson $Z'$ decays in the U$\mu\nu$SSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Searches for new leptophobic resonances at high energy colliders usually target their decay modes into pairs of light quarks, top quarks, or standard model bosons. Additional decay modes may also be present, producing signatures to which current searches are not sensitive. We investigate the performance of generic searches that look for resonances decaying into two large-radius jets. As benchmark for our analysis we use a supersymmetric U(1)\text{U}(1)' extension of the Standard Model, the so-called Uμν\mu\nuSSM, where all the SM decay modes of the ZZ' boson take place, plus additional (cascade) decays into new scalars. The generic searches use a generic multi-pronged jet tagger and take advantage of the presence of bb quarks in the large-radius jets, and are sensitive to all these ZZ' decay modes (except into light quarks) at once. For couplings that are well below current experimental constraints, these generic searches are sensitive at the 3σ4σ3\sigma-4\sigma level with Run 2 LHC data.

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@article{arxiv.2103.13458,
  title  = {Exotic diboson $Z'$ decays in the U$\mu\nu$SSM},
  author = {J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra and I. Lara and D. E. López-Fogliani and C. Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13458},
  year   = {2021}
}

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