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Gluon-Photon Signatures for color octet at the LHC (and beyond)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-06-24 v2

Abstract

We consider a color octet scalar particle and its exotic decay in the channel gluon-γ\gamma using an effective Lagrangian description for its strong and electromagnetic interactions. Such a state is present in many extensions of the Standard Model, and in particular in composite Higgs models with top partial compositeness, where couplings to photons arise via the Wess-Zumino-Witten term. We find that final states with one or two photons allow for a better reach at the LHC, even for small branching ratios. Masses up to 1.21.2 TeV can be probed at the HL-LHC by use of all final states. Finally, we estimate the sensitivity of the hadronic FCC.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01474,
  title  = {Gluon-Photon Signatures for color octet at the LHC (and beyond)},
  author = {G. Cacciapaglia and A. Deandrea and T. Flacke and A. M. Iyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01474},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

26 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables, 2 appendices; v2: Discussion in Sec. 2.2 extended, table 2 added, typos fixed, version published in JHEP