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Enhancing the Large Hadron Collider Sensitivity to Charged and Neutral Broad Resonances of New Gauge Sectors
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 18 Nov 2021
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The authors' main claim We find that the sensitivity to the BSM states is greatly increased with respect to the case of base PDF sets, thereby enabling one to set more stringent limits on (or indeed discover) such new particles, both independently and in correlated searches.
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In scenarios beyond the Standard Model (BSM) characterized by charged ($W^\prime$) or neutral ($Z^\prime$) massive gauge bosons with large width, resonant mass searches are not very effective, so that one has to exploit the tails of the mass distributions measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this case, the LHC sensitivity to new physics signals is influenced significantly by systematic uncertainties associated with the Parton Distribution Functions (PDF), particularly in the valence quark sector relevant for the multi-TeV mass region. As a BSM framework featuring such conditions, we consider the 4-Dimensional Composite Higgs Model (4DCHM), in which multiple $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ broad resonances are present, with strongly correlated properties. By using the QCD tool xFitter, we study the implications on $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ searches in Drell-Yan (DY) lepton decay channels that follow from the reduction of PDF uncertainties obtained through combining high-statistics precision measurements of DY lepton-charge and forward-backward asymmetries. We find that the sensitivity to the BSM states is greatly increased with respect to the case of base PDF sets, thereby enabling one to set more stringent limits on (or indeed discover) such new particles, both independently and in correlated searches.
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| s0 | In scenarios beyond the Standard Model (BSM) characterized by charged ($W^\prime$) or neutral ($Z^\prime$) massive gauge bosons with large width, resonant mass searches are not very effective, so that one has to exploit the tails of the mass distributions measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s1 | In this case, the LHC sensitivity to new physics signals is influenced significantly by systematic uncertainties associated with the Parton Distribution Functions (PDF), particularly in the valence quark sector relevant for the multi-TeV mass region. | background 0.97 | 0.09 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s2 | As a BSM framework featuring such conditions, we consider the 4-Dimensional Composite Higgs Model (4DCHM), in which multiple $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ broad resonances are present, with strongly correlated properties. | method 0.51 | 0.26 | 0.03 | asserted 0.97 |
| s3 | By using the QCD tool xFitter, we study the implications on $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ searches in Drell-Yan (DY) lepton decay channels that follow from the reduction of PDF uncertainties obtained through combining high-statistics precision measurements of DY lepton-charge and forward-backward asymmetries. | method 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.06 | asserted 0.94 |
| s4 | We find that the sensitivity to the BSM states is greatly increased with respect to the case of base PDF sets, thereby enabling one to set more stringent limits on (or indeed discover) such new particles, both independently and in correlated searches. | result 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.91 | asserted 1.00 |
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In scenarios beyond the Standard Model (BSM) characterized by charged ($W^\prime$) or neutral ($Z^\prime$) massive gauge bosons with large width, resonant mass searches are not very effective, so that one has to exploit the tails of the mass distributions measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this case, the LHC sensitivity to new physics signals is influenced significantly by systematic uncertainties associated with the Parton Distribution Functions (PDF), particularly in the valence quark sector relevant for the multi-TeV mass region. As a BSM framework featuring such conditions, we consider the 4-Dimensional Composite Higgs Model (4DCHM), in which multiple $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ broad resonances are present, with strongly correlated properties. By using the QCD tool xFitter, we study the implications on $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ searches in Drell-Yan (DY) lepton decay channels that follow from the reduction of PDF uncertainties obtained through combining high-statistics precision measurements of DY lepton-charge and forward-backward asymmetries. We find that the sensitivity to the BSM states is greatly increased with respect to the case of base PDF sets, thereby enabling one to set more stringent limits on (or indeed discover) such new particles, both independently and in correlated searches.
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We find that the sensitivity to the Beyond the Standard Model states is greatly increased with respect to the case of base Parton Distribution Functions sets, thereby enabling one to set more stringent limits on (or indeed discover) such new particles.
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Ref. [ref] selects two 4DCHM benchmarks, denoted by A and B, each characterized by specific values of $f$, $g_ρ$ and the resonance masses.
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The resulting depletion of events can also lead to an early indication of the presence of a BSM contribution [ref] , above and beyond SM uncertainties (for some $Z^'$ scenarios).
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The results of this paper are obtained using the “improved PDFs" constructed according to the approach illustrated in Ref. [ref] .
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This is based on the following: i) exploiting DY production for NC and CC channels in the mass region near the SM vector boson peak, characterised by high statistics; ii) using the information encoded in the DY asymmetries of the NC [ref] and CC channels, associated with the SM vector boson left-handed and right-handed polarizations, to reduce quark PDF uncertainties.[The vector boson longitudinal polarization can be used to constrain gluon distributions in gluon fusion processes, see [ref] .]
Constraining Parton Distribution Functions from Neutral Current Drell-Yan Measurements · PDF Profiling · 0.93
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This is based on the following: i) exploiting DY production for NC and CC channels in the mass region near the SM vector boson peak, characterised by high statistics; ii) using the information encoded in the DY asymmetries of the NC [ref] and CC channels, associated with the SM vector boson left-handed and right-handed polarizations, to reduce quark PDF uncertainties.[The vector boson longitudinal polarization can be used to constrain gluon distributions in gluon fusion processes, see [ref] .]
Neutral Current Forward-Backward Asymmetry: from $\theta_W$ to PDF Determinations · PDF Profiling · 0.93
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NLO EW corrections are not included, based on the studies carried out in [ref] which indicated that their impact on the profiling at the weak boson mass scale is not large.
PDF Profiling Using the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Neutral Current Drell-Yan Production · PDF Profiling · 0.97
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The strong interference effects between the BSM resonances themselves and between the BSM and SM states are responsible for the presence of a statistically significant depletion of events that appears below the BW (Jacobian) peaks in the invariant (transverse) mass distribution in the NC (CC) process [ref] .
Lepton-Charge and Forward-Backward Asymmetries in Drell-Yan Processes for Precision Electroweak Measurements and New Physics Searches · Introduction · 0.96
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The strong interference effects between the BSM resonances themselves and between the BSM and SM states are responsible for the presence of a statistically significant depletion of events that appears below the BW (Jacobian) peaks in the invariant (transverse) mass distribution in the NC (CC) process [ref] .
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The neutral gauge sector of the 4DCHM model features three extra non-inert heavy resonances [ref] .
Exploring Drell-Yan signals from the 4D Composite Higgs Model at the LHC · Limits on the model parameter space from Neutral DY · 0.88
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The neutral gauge sector of the 4DCHM model features three extra non-inert heavy resonances [ref] .
Drell-Yan production of multi Z'-bosons at the LHC within Non-Universal ED and 4D Composite Higgs Models · Limits on the model parameter space from Neutral DY · 0.88
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To this end, we consider new gauge sectors in strongly-coupled models of electroweak symmetry breaking [ref] based on composite Nambu-Goldstone Higgs [ref] .
The Composite Nambu-Goldstone Higgs · Introduction · 0.81
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