Unique signatures of unparticle resonances at the LHC
Creators
- 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/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/039Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 11
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 039
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41111885
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BREIT-WIGNER FORMULA; CERN LHC; COLLISIONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; DRELL MODEL; EFFECTIVE MASS; HIGGS BOSONS; LUMINOSITY; PROPAGATOR; SELF-ENERGY; STANDARD MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RESONANCE; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS