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Visible Effects of Invisible Hidden Valley Radiation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-21 v2

Abstract

Assuming there is a new gauge group in a Hidden Valley, and a new type of radiation, can we observe it through its effect on the kinematic distributions of recoiling visible particles? Specifically, what are the collider signatures of radiation in a hidden sector? We address these questions using a generic SU(N)-like Hidden Valley model that we implement in Pythia. We find that in both the e+e- and the LHC cases the kinematic distributions of the visible particles can be significantly affected by the valley radiation. Without a proper understanding of such effects, inferred masses of "communicators" and of invisible particles can be substantially off.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2911,
  title  = {Visible Effects of Invisible Hidden Valley Radiation},
  author = {Lisa Carloni and Torbjorn Sjostrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2911},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages, 28 figures removed figure titles,updated 2 references,corrected typos