English

Single production of dark photon at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-02 v1

Abstract

Many extensions of the SM contain hidden sectors which are uncharged under the SM gauge group. The simplest model with an additional U(1)U(1) group predicts the existence of the new gauge boson, dark photon ZDZ_D. In this work we consider single production of dark photon ZDZ_D at the LHC and study its discovery potential via the process ppZDγllγpp\rightarrow Z_D\gamma\rightarrow ll\gamma. After simulating the signal as well as the relevant backgrounds, the numerical results show that the signal of ZDZ_D might be detected at the 14TeV LHC.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.00153,
  title  = {Single production of dark photon at the LHC},
  author = {Zhi-Cheng Liu and Chong-Xing Yue and Yu-Chen Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00153},
  year   = {2017}
}