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Measuring the diphoton coupling of a 750 GeV resonance

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-29 v2

Abstract

A slight excess has been observed in the first data of photon-photon events at the 13 TeV LHC, that might be interpreted has a hint of physics beyond the Standard Model. We show that a completely model-independent measurement of the photon-photon coupling of a putative 750 GeV resonance will be possible using the forward proton detectors scheduled at ATLAS and CMS.

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@article{arxiv.1601.01712,
  title  = {Measuring the diphoton coupling of a 750 GeV resonance},
  author = {Sylvain Fichet and Gero von Gersdorff and Christophe Royon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01712},
  year   = {2016}
}

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v2: version published in PRL