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Probing new physics at the LHC with $\mathrm{b}\tau\nu$ final states

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-26 v2

Abstract

The RD()R_{D^{(\ast)}} anomaly is one of the most intriguing experimental results in particle physics today. Experiments such as BaBar, Belle and LHCb have measured a consistent tension with the standard model (SM). We study several extensions of the SM that could potentially explain this tension, such as production of heavy W\mathrm{W}^{\prime} bosons, under the sequential SM scenario, leptoquarks with preferential couplings to third generation fermions, and interpretations through effective field theories. Such models, are not only able to explain the RD()R_{D^{(\ast)}} anomaly but also to produce distinctive signatures at the LHC. We present different feasibility studies to probe each of these scenarios at the LHC, considering final states with one b\mathrm{b}-quark candidate, one hadronically decaying tau lepton (τh\tau_{h}) and missing transverse momentum (pTmissp^{miss}_{\mathrm{T}}). The selection criteria has been optimized for each model to achieve best signal signficance. The studies are performed considering different LHC running conditions, at s=13TeV\sqrt{s} = 13 \, \mathrm{TeV} and 13.6 TeV\mathrm{TeV}, and different luminosities (150~fb1\mathrm{fb}^{-1} and 3000~fb1\mathrm{fb}^{-1}).

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@article{arxiv.2211.05738,
  title  = {Probing new physics at the LHC with $\mathrm{b}\tau\nu$ final states},
  author = {Andrés Flórez and José D. Ruiz Álvarez and Tomas Atehortua Garces},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05738},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures