Universe (Sep 2021)

Model-Independent Searches for New Physics in Multi-Body Invariant Masses

  • Sergei Chekanov,
  • Smita Darmora,
  • Wasikul Islam,
  • Carlos E. M. Wagner,
  • Jinlong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7090333
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 9
p. 333

Abstract

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Model-independent searches for physics beyond the Standard Model typically focus on invariant masses of two objects (jets, leptons or photons). In this study, we explore opportunities for similar model-agnostic searches in multi-body invariant masses. In particular, we focus on the situations in which new physics can be observed in a model-independent way in three and four-body invariant masses of jets and leptons. Such searches may have good prospects in finding new physics in the situations when two-body invariant masses, which have been extensively explored at collider experiments in the past, cannot provide sufficient signatures for experimental observations.

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