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Universal Extra Dimension models with gravity mediated decays after LHC Run II data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-11-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the 'fat-brane' realization of Universal Extra Dimension (UED) models, the gravity mediated decays of Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of the Standard Model (SM) particles offer interesting collider signals. Colored level-1 KK-particles (quarks q1q^1 and/or gluons g1g^{1}) are pair-produced at the colliders due to conserved KK-parity. These particles, then, cascade decay into lighter level-1 KK-particle in association with one or more SM particles until producing lightest KK particle (LKP). The gravity mediation allows LKP to decay into photon or ZZ-boson plus gravity excitation, hence resulting in di-photon/ZZZZ/ZγZ\gamma plus missing transverse energy signatures at collider experiments. Alternatively, pair-produced level-1 KK quarks/gluons may directly decay into the corresponding SM quark/gluon and a gravity excitation resulting in di-jet plus missing transverse energy signal. The ATLAS Collaboration has recently communicated the results for di-photon and multi-jet plus missing transverse energy searches with 36.136.1 inverse-femtobarn of integrated luminosity at 1313 TeV center-of-mass energy. No significant excess of events above the SM expectation was observed in both searches. We constrain the 'fat-brane' UED model parameters, namely the fundamental Planck mass MDM_{D} and the size of small extra dimensions RR, in the light of above-mentioned ATLAS searches.

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@article{arxiv.1805.11124,
  title  = {Universal Extra Dimension models with gravity mediated decays after LHC Run II data},
  author = {Kirtiman Ghosh and Durmus Karabacak and S. Nandi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11124},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures

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