18–24 Jun 2017
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
US/Pacific timezone

Illuminating Electroweak States at Hadron Colliders

21 Jun 2017, 16:30
30m
Emerald Bay B (UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)

Emerald Bay B

UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Working Group Sessions Electroweak Interactions Working Group Working Group: Electroweak Interactions

Speaker

Ahmed Ismail (University of Pittsburgh)

Description

New electroweak states appear in many BSM theories but are difficult to discover at hadron colliders. When the lightest member of an electroweak multiplet is neutral and all of its components are approximately degenerate, production of the charged components is followed by nearly invisible decays. If these decays occur promptly, the only way to observe them is through MET-based signatures. I show that using photon final state radiation, identification of new electroweak states can be significantly improved.

Primary authors

Ahmed Ismail (University of Pittsburgh) Mr Brian Shuve (Harvard University) Eder Izaguirre (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Presentation materials