INVESTIGADORES
ALVAREZ Ezequiel
artículos
Título:
Enhancing the sensitivity to new physics in the tt̅ invariant mass distribution
Autor/es:
EZEQUIEL ALVAREZ
Revista:
PHYSICAL REVIEW D - PARTICLE AND FILDS
Editorial:
APS
Referencias:
Lugar: Oak Ridge; Año: 2012 vol. 86 p. 37501 - 37505
ISSN:
0556-2821
Resumen:
We propose selection cuts on the LHC tt̅ production sample which should enhance the sensitivity to new physics signals in the study of the tt̅ invariant mass distribution. We show that selecting events in which the tt̅
object has little transverse and large longitudinal momentum
enlarges the quark-fusion fraction of the sample and therefore increases
its sensitivity to new physics which couples to quarks and not to
gluons. We find that systematic error bars play a fundamental role and
assume a simple model for them. We check how a non-visible new particle
would become visible after the selection cuts enhance its resonance
bump. A final realistic analysis should be done by the experimental
groups with a correct evaluation of the systematic error bars.