Novel angular dependence in Drell-Yan lepton production via dimension-8 operators
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-08-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We study the effects of dimension-8 operators on Drell-Yan production of lepton pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We identify a class of operators that leads to novel angular dependence not accounted for in current analyses. The observation of such effects would be a smoking-gun signature of new physics appearing at the dimension-8 level. We propose an extension of the currently used angular basis and show that these effects should be observable in future LHC analyses for realistic values of the associated dimension-8 Wilson coefficients.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.11615,
title = {Novel angular dependence in Drell-Yan lepton production via dimension-8 operators},
author = {Simone Alioli and Radja Boughezal and Emanuele Mereghetti and Frank Petriello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11615},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure