Exploring the scattering of vector bosons at LHCb

Mathieu Pellen (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom)

In this paper, I propose a strategy to measure vector-boson scattering (VBS) at the LHCb experiment. The typical VBS topology at hadron colliders features two energetic back-to-back jets with large rapidities and two gauge bosons produced centrally. In this article, I show that such a topology can actually be probed by the LHCb detector. In particular, tagging only one of the two jets in combination with two same-sign leptons allows for a measurement with upcoming luminosities. I present an illustrative event selection where cross sections and differential distributions are computed for VBS and its irreducible background.

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Published on:
09 January 2020
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 101 (2020)
Issue 1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.013002
arXiv:
1908.06805
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Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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