Rare $Z$ Boson Decays to a Hidden Sector
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-01-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We demonstrate that rare decays of the Standard Model boson can be used to discover and characterize the nature of new hidden-sector particles. We propose new searches for these particles in soft, high-multiplicity leptonic final states at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed searches are sensitive to low-mass particles produced in decays, and we argue that these striking signatures can shed light on the hidden-sector couplings and mechanism for mass generation.
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@article{arxiv.1710.07635,
title = {Rare $Z$ Boson Decays to a Hidden Sector},
author = {Nikita Blinov and Eder Izaguirre and Brian Shuve},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07635},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures. Updated figures with the corrected public LHCb limit table. Version submitted to PRD