Exploring interference effects between two ALP effective operators at the LHC

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Hauptverfasser: Cheung, Kingman, Lu, Chih-Ting, Ouseph, C. J., Sarmah, Priyanka
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Cheung, Kingman
Lu, Chih-Ting
Ouseph, C. J.
Sarmah, Priyanka
author_facet Cheung, Kingman
Lu, Chih-Ting
Ouseph, C. J.
Sarmah, Priyanka
contents We observe that most studies of axion-like particle (ALP) production channels at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) focus on a single type of ALP operator for each process in the effective field theory framework. In this work, we propose an alternative approach that considers two or more types of relevant ALP effective operators together in some specific ALP production channels and study their interference effects. Using the $p p\rightarrow t j a$ process with $a\rightarrowγγ$ as an example, we show that this approach allows us to constrain the ALP interactions with both the $W$ boson and the top quark, as well as their interference in a single process. For the final state with two isolated photons and a top quark decaying semi-leptonically, we predict that the future bounds on the ALP decay constant can reach around $f_a \sim 10\;(20) $ TeV for $25$ GeV $< M_a < 100$ GeV at the LHC with 300 (3000) fb$^{1}$ luminosity.
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spellingShingle Exploring interference effects between two ALP effective operators at the LHC
Cheung, Kingman
Lu, Chih-Ting
Ouseph, C. J.
Sarmah, Priyanka
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We observe that most studies of axion-like particle (ALP) production channels at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) focus on a single type of ALP operator for each process in the effective field theory framework. In this work, we propose an alternative approach that considers two or more types of relevant ALP effective operators together in some specific ALP production channels and study their interference effects. Using the $p p\rightarrow t j a$ process with $a\rightarrowγγ$ as an example, we show that this approach allows us to constrain the ALP interactions with both the $W$ boson and the top quark, as well as their interference in a single process. For the final state with two isolated photons and a top quark decaying semi-leptonically, we predict that the future bounds on the ALP decay constant can reach around $f_a \sim 10\;(20) $ TeV for $25$ GeV $< M_a < 100$ GeV at the LHC with 300 (3000) fb$^{1}$ luminosity.
title Exploring interference effects between two ALP effective operators at the LHC
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14833