Ultraheavy diquark decaying into vectorlike quarks at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-08-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We explore the discovery potential of an ultraheavy TeV) diquark scalar produced in the collisions of two up quarks at the LHC. Assuming that the diquark scalar decays into two vectorlike quarks of mass around 2 TeV, each of them decaying into a boson and a quark, we focus on the fully-hadronic final state. We present a signal-from-background separation study based on a discriminator built with Machine Learning techniques. For this six-jet final state and a luminosity of , we estimate that a diquark scalar of mass near 8 TeV may be discovered or ruled out even when its coupling to up quarks is as low as 0.2.
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@article{arxiv.2503.17031,
title = {Ultraheavy diquark decaying into vectorlike quarks at the LHC},
author = {Ioana Duminica and Calin Alexa and Ioan M. Dinu and Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Matei-Stefan Filip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17031},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures. v2: Several new explanatory paragraphs