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Title: Digging deeper for new physics in the LHC data

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a novel, model-independent technique of “rectangular aggregations” for mining the LHC data for hints of new physics. A typical (CMS) search now has hundreds of signal regions, which can obscure potentially interesting anomalies. Applying our technique to the two CMS jets+MET SUSY searches, we identify a set of previously overlooked ~3σ excesses. Among these, four excesses survive tests of inter-and intra-search compatibility, and two are especially interesting: they are largely overlapping between the jets+MET searches and are characterized by low jet multiplicity, zero b-jets, and low MET and HT. We find that resonant color-triplet production decaying to a quark plus an invisible particle provides an excellent fit to these two excesses and all other data — including the ATLAS jets+MET search, which actually sees a correlated excess. We discuss the additional constraints coming from dijet resonance searches, monojet searches and pair production. Based on these results, we believe the wide-spread view that the LHC data contains no interesting excesses is greatly exaggerated.

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  1. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Research Org.:
Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1506459
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0003883; SC0013678
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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Asadi, Pouya, Buckley, Matthew R., DiFranzo, Anthony, Monteux, Angelo, and Shih, David. Digging deeper for new physics in the LHC data. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2017)194.
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Asadi, Pouya, Buckley, Matthew R., DiFranzo, Anthony, Monteux, Angelo, & Shih, David. Digging deeper for new physics in the LHC data. United States. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2017)194.
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Asadi, Pouya, Buckley, Matthew R., DiFranzo, Anthony, Monteux, Angelo, and Shih, David. Tue . "Digging deeper for new physics in the LHC data". United States. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2017)194. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1506459.
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@article{osti_1506459,
title = {Digging deeper for new physics in the LHC data},
author = {Asadi, Pouya and Buckley, Matthew R. and DiFranzo, Anthony and Monteux, Angelo and Shih, David},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we describe a novel, model-independent technique of “rectangular aggregations” for mining the LHC data for hints of new physics. A typical (CMS) search now has hundreds of signal regions, which can obscure potentially interesting anomalies. Applying our technique to the two CMS jets+MET SUSY searches, we identify a set of previously overlooked ~3σ excesses. Among these, four excesses survive tests of inter-and intra-search compatibility, and two are especially interesting: they are largely overlapping between the jets+MET searches and are characterized by low jet multiplicity, zero b-jets, and low MET and HT. We find that resonant color-triplet production decaying to a quark plus an invisible particle provides an excellent fit to these two excesses and all other data — including the ATLAS jets+MET search, which actually sees a correlated excess. We discuss the additional constraints coming from dijet resonance searches, monojet searches and pair production. Based on these results, we believe the wide-spread view that the LHC data contains no interesting excesses is greatly exaggerated.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep11(2017)194},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 11,
volume = 2017,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {11}
}
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