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Drell–Yan constraints on new electroweak states: LHC as a $p p \to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ $p p \to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ precision machine

Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, FIN-00014, Finland

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Oleg Lebedev

Department of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, FIN-00014, Finland

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Jose Miguel No

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK

E-mail Address: J.M.No@sussex.ac.uk

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732317500948Cited by:9 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The Standard Model (SM) extensions with vector-like states which have either zero hypercharge or zero weak isospin are rather poorly constrained by the electroweak precision measurements. Such new states would however modify the running of the gauge couplings at high energies. As a result, the Drell–Yan process $p p \to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ at the LHC places useful constraints on these models. The relevant observables include both the dilepton invariant mass distribution $M_{ℓ ℓ}$ and the forward–backward asymmetry $A_{FB}$ . We find that the LHC Run 1 data and the initial data from Run 2 surpass the sensitivity of LEP and already put meaningful constraints on the existence of such particles, which will become progressively stronger with more data.

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PACS: 13.85.Fb, 13.85.Qk, 14.60.Hi

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