Speaker
Dr
Elena Accomando
(University of Southampton)
Description
The Forward-Backward Asymmetry (AFB) in Z' physics is commonly only perceived as the observable which possibly allows one to interpret a Z' signal by distinguishing different models of such (heavy) spin-1 bosons. In this talk, we examine the potential of AFB in setting bounds on or even discovering a Z' boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and show that it might be a powerful tool for this purpose. We analyse two different scenarios: Z' bosons with a narrow and wide width, respectively. We find that, in the first case, the significance of the AFB search can be comparable with that of the bump search usually adopted by the experimental collaborations; however, being a ratio of (differential) cross sections the AFB has the advantage of reducing systematical errors. In the second case, the AFB search can win over the bump search in terms of event shape, as the structure of the AFB distribution as a function of the invariant mass of the reconstructed Z'boson could nail down the new broad resonance much better than the event counting strategy usually adopted in such cases.
The talk would be based on the recently published paper arXiv:1503.02672
Author
Dr
Elena Accomando
(University of Southampton)
Co-authors
Prof.
Alexandre Belyaev
(University of Southampton)
Dr
Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Dr
Juri Fiaschi
(University of Southampton)
Dr
Ken Mimasu
(University of Sussex)
Prof.
Stefano Moretti
(University of Southampton)
