Published November 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Unique signatures of unparticle resonances at the LHC

  • 1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 (United States)

Description

The coupling of unparticles to the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson leads to a breaking of conformal symmetry which produces an effective mass term in the unparticle propagator. Simultaneously, the unparticle couplings to other SM fields produces an effective unparticle decay width via one-loop self-energy graphs. The resulting unparticle propagator then leads to a rather unique appearance for the shape of unparticle resonances that are not of the usual Breit-Wigner variety when they form in high energy collisions. In this paper we explore whether or not such resonances, appearing in the Drell-Yan channel at the LHC, can be differentiated from more conventional Z'-like structures which are representative of the typical Breit-Wigner lineshape. We will demonstrate that even with the high integrated luminosities available at the LHC it may be difficult to differentiate these two types of resonance structures for a substantial range of the unparticle model parameters.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/039

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 039
ISSN
1126-6708