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Interpreting the 750 GeV Di-photon Resonance using photon-jets in Hidden-Valley-like models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Motivated by the di-photon resonance recently reported by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at s=13\sqrt{s} =13 TeV, we interpret the resonance as a scalar boson X(750)X (750) in hidden-valley-like models. The scalar boson XX can mix with the standard model Higgs boson and thus can be produced via gluon fusion. It then decays into a pair of very light hidden particles YY of sub-GeV, each of which in turn decays to a pair of collimated π0 \pi^{0} 's, and these two π0 \pi^{0} 's decay into photons which then form photon-jets. A photon-jet (γ \gamma -jet) is a special feature that consists of a cluster of collinear photons from the decay of a fast moving light particle (sub-GeV). Because these photons inside the photon-jet are so collimated that it cannot be distinguished from a single photon, and so in the final state of the decay of X(750)X(750) a pair of photon-jets look like a pair of single photons, which the experimentalists observed and formed the 750 GeV di-photon resonance. Prospects for the LHC Run-2 about other new and testable features are also discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.06671,
  title  = {Interpreting the 750 GeV Di-photon Resonance using photon-jets in Hidden-Valley-like models},
  author = {Jung Chang and Kingman Cheung and Chih-Ting Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06671},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

v2: 23 pages, 7 figures, more discussion on constraints of X and Y bosons, accepted version by PRD; v1: 19 pages, 7 figures