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On Mono-W Signatures in Spin-1 Simplified Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-07-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The potential sensitivity to isospin-breaking effects makes LHC searches for mono-W signatures promising probes of the coupling structure between the Standard Model and dark matter. It has been shown, however, that the strong sensitivity of the mono-W channel to the relative magnitude and sign of the up-type and down-type quark couplings to dark matter is an artefact of unitarity violation. We provide three different solutions to this mono-W problem in the context of spin-1 simplified models and briefly discuss the impact that our findings have on the prospects of mono-W searches at future LHC runs.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01267,
  title  = {On Mono-W Signatures in Spin-1 Simplified Models},
  author = {Ulrich Haisch and Felix Kahlhoefer and Tim M. P. Tait},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01267},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures; v2: matches published version