XXVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects

Searches for quartic anomalous coupling at the LHC with intact protons

15 Apr 2021, 08:54

15m

Virtual (Stony Brook, NY)

Contributed Talk Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Christophe Royon (University of Kansas)

Description

We will discuss the sensitivity to quartic anomalous couplings between photons and W/Z bosons at the LHC using intact protons in the final state. This allows obtaining a negligible background for 300 fb${}^{-1}$ of data and improves the sensitivities to anomalous couplings by two or three orders of magnitude compared to standard methods. We will also discuss the sensitivity to axion-like particles that also improves by two orders of magnitude.

Presentation materials

dis2021_anomalous.pdf

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