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Current LHC searches for new colored particles generally focus on their pair production channels and assume any single production to be negligible. We argue that such an assumption may be unnecessary in some cases. Inclusion of model…
In this proceedings contribution, I briefly summarize various aspects that are important in the discussions of new physics searches with novel scalar states, at current and future colliders. In particular, I give a brief glance on the…
We classify all possible new scalar particles that can have renormalizable linear couplings to Standard Model fields and therefore be singly produced at colliders. We show that this classification exhausts the list of heavy scalar particles…
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