Novel angular dependence in Drell-Yan lepton production via dimension-8 operators

Simone Alioli; Radja Boughezal; Emanuele Mereghetti; Frank Petriello

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135703

Novel angular dependence in Drell-Yan lepton production via dimension-8 operators

Simone Alioli, Radja Boughezal^*, Emanuele Mereghetti, Frank Petriello

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Abstract

We study the effects of dimension-8 operators on Drell-Yan production of lepton pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We identify a class of operators that leads to novel angular dependence not accounted for in current analyses. The observation of such effects would be a smoking-gun signature of new physics appearing at the dimension-8 level. We propose an extension of the currently used angular basis and show that these effects should be observable in future LHC analyses for realistic values of the associated dimension-8 Wilson coefficients.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	135703
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	809
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135703
State	Published - Oct 10 2020

Funding

S. A. is supported by the ERC Starting Grant REINVENT-714788 and by the Fondazione Cariplo and Regione Lombardia grant 2017-2070 . R. B. is supported by the DOE contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 . E. M. is supported by the DOE grant DE-AC52-06NA25396 . F. P. is supported by the DOE grants DE-FG02-91ER40684 and DE-AC02-06CH11357 .

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