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arXiv 0810.3948hep-phhep-ex
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新物理学在潜在事件中的信号

Signals of New Physics in the Underlying Event

Roni Harnik, Tommer Wizansky

摘要:

LHC对新物理学的研究集中在硬物理对象的组合上。在这项工作中,我们提出了一个质的不同的软信号的新物理在大型强子对撞机-“异常的基础事件”。由于QCD和堆积效应,每一个硬LHC事件都会伴随着一个软的潜在事件。虽然它经常被用于QCD和蒙特卡洛研究,在这里,我们提出了一个潜在的事件分析,在一些新的物理搜索。异常潜在事件的过量可能是特定的新物理场景的烟雾枪信号,例如“怪癖”或“隐藏的山谷”,其中大量的能量可能由大量的软粒子发射。我们讨论了可能的搜索策略,这样的软扩散信号的跟踪系统和量热的LHC实验。我们提出了一个具体的例子,一个简单的夸克模型的折叠超对称性激发的量热信号的详细研究。在这些模型中,高度激发的夸克束缚态的产生和辐射衰变导致了软非聚集能量的“天线图案”。使用玩具探测器的专用模拟和“类似CMB”的多极分析,我们将信号与预期的背景进行比较。

英文摘要:

LHC searches for new physics focus on combinations of hard physics objects. In this work we propose a qualitatively different soft signal for new physics at the LHC - the "anomalous underlying event". Every hard LHC event will be accompanied by a soft underlying event due to QCD and pile-up effects. Though it is often used for QCD and monte carlo studies, here we propose the incorporation of an underlying event analysis in some searches for new physics. An excess of anomalous underlying events may be a smoking-gun signal for particular new physics scenarios such as "quirks" or "hidden valleys" in which large amounts of energy may be emitted by a large multiplicity of soft particles. We discuss possible search strategies for such soft diffuse signals in the tracking system and calorimetry of the LHC experiments. We present a detailed study of the calorimetric signal in a concrete example, a simple quirk model motivated by folded supersymmetry. In these models the production and radiative decay of highly excited quirk bound states leads to an "antenna pattern" of soft unclustered energy. Using a dedicated simulation of a toy detector and a "CMB-like" multipole analysis we compare the signal to the expected backgrounds.

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