Exploring the scattering of vector bosons at LHCb
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-11-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
In this letter, I propose a strategy to measure vector-boson scattering (VBS) at the LHCb experiment. The typical VBS topology at hadron colliders features two energetic back-to-back jets with large rapidities and two gauge bosons produced centrally. In this article, I show that such a topology can actually be probed by the LHCb detector. In particular, tagging only one of the two jets in combination with two same-sign leptons allows for a measurement with upcoming luminosities. I present an illustrative event selection where cross sections and differential distributions are computed for VBS and its irreducible background.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.06805,
title = {Exploring the scattering of vector bosons at LHCb},
author = {Mathieu Pellen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06805},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures. Combinatorics factors and Eq.(15) fixed