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G07: Beyond the Standard Model II

Ballroom A9, Floor 2

Sponsoring Units: DPFChair: Joel Butler, Fermilab

Thu. April 4, 10:45 a.m. – 10:57 a.m. PDT

Ballroom A9, Floor 2

Diquarks are a class of ultra-heavy resonances that can theoretically be produced at the Large Hadron Collider with relatively large cross-sections and could provide explanations for a number of curious high-mass events reconstructed at the CMS Experiment during the Run 2 data-taking period. In theories where diquarks decay to pairs of vector-like quarks (VLQs), the resulting hadronic final state kinematics are highly complex, and new analysis techniques are needed to study these in a comprehensive way. Presented is a novel technique that uses event geometry and a series of Lorentz boosts to reach the approximate center-of-mass frames of the diquark and each VLQ in order to reconstruct their respective masses.

Presented By

  • Ethan M Cannaert (University of California, Davis)

Authors

  • Ethan M Cannaert (University of California, Davis)
  • John S Conway (University of California, Davis)