Portoroz 2015: Particle Phenomenology From the Early Universe to High Energy Colliders

Of Contact Interactions and Colliders (why not fit form factors?)

9 Apr 2015, 12:09

23m

James Cook (Portoroz, Slovenia)

Collider

Speaker

Sacha Davidson (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Description

At the LHC, New Physics could be better parametrised with form factors than with contact interactions, if the New Physics scale is similar to the LHC energy. As a toy example, I consider the process pp -> l+l- , fit the high-energy tail to a function, and show that the resulting limits can be analytically translated to a wide variety of models (no event simulation required).

Presentation materials

Slides

Portoroz.pdf