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String Theory at LHC Using Higgs Production and Decay From String Balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-20 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study Higgs production and decay from TeV scale string balls in pppp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 14 TeV at LHC. We present the results of total cross section of diphotons, invariant mass distribution of the diphotons and pTp_T distribution of the diphotons and ZZZZ pairs from Higgs from string balls at LHC. We find that the invariant mass distribution of diphotons from Higgs from string balls is not very sensitive to the increase in diphoton invariant mass. We find that for string mass scale MsM_s=2.5 TeV, which is the lower limit of the string mass scale set by the recent CMS collaboration at LHC, the dσdpT\frac{d\sigma}{dp_T} of high pTp_T (\ge 450 GeV) diphotons and ZZZZ pairs produced from Higgs from string balls is larger than that from standard model Higgs. Hence in the absence of black hole production at LHC an enhancement of high pTp_T diphotons and ZZZZ pairs at LHC can be useful signatures for string theory at LHC. Since the matrix element for Higgs production in parton-parton collisions via string regge excitations is not available we compute dσdpT\frac{d\sigma}{dp_T} of photon production from string regge excitations and make a comparison with that from string balls at LHC. We find that for string mass scale MsM_s = 2.5 TeV the dσphotondpT\frac{d\sigma_{photon}}{dp_T} from string regge excitations is larger than that from string balls and black holes at LHC.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0904.3560,
  title  = {String Theory at LHC Using Higgs Production and Decay From String Balls},
  author = {Gouranga C Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3560},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Title changed, New results on string regge excitations added, 18 pages latex, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in JHEP

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