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) |
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Article number | 135703 |
Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 809 |
DOIs | |
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 .
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics