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The unexplored landscape of two-body resonances

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a strategy for searching for theoretically-unanticipated new physics which avoids a large trials factor by focusing on experimental strengths. Searches for resonances decaying into pairs of visible particles are experimentally very powerful due to the localized mass peaks and have a rich history of discovery. Yet, due to a focus on subsets of theoretically-motivated models, the landscape of such resonances is far from thoroughly explored. We survey the existing set of searches, identify untapped experimental opportunities and discuss the theoretical constraints on models which would generate such resonances.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09392,
  title  = {The unexplored landscape of two-body resonances},
  author = {Nathaniel Craig and Patrick Draper and Kyoungchul Kong and Yvonne Ng and Daniel Whiteson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09392},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables