The radiation valley and exotic resonances in $Wγ$ production at the LHC
The tree-level partonic angular distribution of Standard Model $Wγ$ production possesses a feature known as the Radiation Amplitude Zero (RAZ) where destructive interference causes the cross section to vanish. At the proton level the exact cancellation disappears, however, one can find a dip in the central region of the angular distributions, here called the Radiation Valley (RV). In this paper, we show how the sensitivity for $W(ℓv)γ$ resonances can be significantly improved if one focuses on events in the RV region. Using this technique, we find that the LHC could probe a larger range of resonance masses, equivalent to increasing the luminosity by a factor of 2–3 over conventional searches. The exact increase depends on the spin of the $Wγ$ resonance and exactly how it couples to electroweak gauge bosons.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Canada Research Chair; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI); Industry Canada; Ministry of Economics Development and Innovation
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; PHY-1820860; SC0007859
- OSTI ID:
- 1597065
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1912.08234; FERMILAB-PUB-19-630-T; oai:inspirehep.net:1771553; TRN: US2102995
- Journal Information:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2020, Issue 3; ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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