Physics Letters B (Jan 2018)

Diboson interference resurrection

  • Giuliano Panico,
  • Francesco Riva,
  • Andrea Wulzer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.068
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 776, no. C
pp. 473 – 480

Abstract

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High-energy diboson processes at the LHC are potentially powerful indirect probes of heavy new physics, whose effects can be encapsulated in higher-dimensional operators or in modified Standard Model couplings. An obstruction however comes from the fact that leading new physics effects often emerge in diboson helicity amplitudes that are anomalously small in the Standard Model. As such, the formally leading Standard Model/New Physics interference contribution cancels in inclusive measurements. This paper describes a solution to this problem.