Published 2023 | Version v1
Journal article

Feasibility of the observation of a heavy scalar through the fully hadronic final state at the LHeC

  • 1. School of Physics and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2050, Johannesburg (South Africa)
  • 2. iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, PO Box 722, 7129, Somerset West (South Africa)

Description

The proposed future Large Hadron electron collider provides sufficient center of mass energies, s, to probe heavy particles decaying into W±(Z)-boson of mass > 2mW (2mZ). In this work we present a study to produce one such heavy CP even scalar H of mass 2mh< mH< 2mt through charged-current production mode where H → W+W, where hadronic decay of W±-boson is considered to reconstruct mH. Due to the presence of missing energy and forward jet in this channel, it is challenging to reconstruct mH with above final state and thus we employed three different reconstruction methods and discuss the significance of each one. For this analysis we consider a benchmark value of mH = 270 GeV and s ≈ 1.3 TeV with an assumed luminosity of 1 ab1.

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11303-6

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
1434-6052
CODEN
EPCFFB

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