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Dissecting Multi-Photon Resonances at the Large Hadron Collider

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Allanach, BC 
Bhatia, D 
Iyer, AM 

Abstract

We examine the phenomenology of the production, at the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC), of the production of a heavy resonance X, which decays via other new on-shell particles n into multi- (i.e.\ three or more) photon final states. In the limit that n has a much smaller mass than X, the multi-photon final state may dominantly appear as a two photon final state because the γs from the n decay are highly collinear and remain unresolved. We discuss how to discriminate this scenario from Xγγ: rather than discarding non-isolated photons, it is better instead to relax the isolation criterion and instead form photon jet substructure variables. The spins of X and n leave their imprint upon the distribution of pseudorapidity gap Δη between the apparent two photon states. Depending on the total integrated luminosity, this can be used in many cases to claim discrimination between the possible spin choices of X and n, although the case where X and n are both scalar particles cannot be discriminated from the direct Xγγ decay in this manner. Information on the mass of n can be gained by onsidering the mass of each photon jet.

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Keywords

hep-ph, hep-ph, hep-ex

Journal Title

European Physical Journal C

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Journal ISSN

1434-6044
1434-6052

Volume Title

77

Publisher

Springer
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
This work has been partially supported by STFC ST/L000385/1.