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Perturbative benchmark models for a dark shower search program

We provide five benchmark hidden valley models with perturbative parton showers, which span a wide range of dark shower phenomenology. We consider production through an s-channel, heavy mediator, which can be identified with the SM Higgs. By assuming a set of well-motivated decay portals, one can mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Knapen, Simon, Shelton, Jessie, Xu, Dong
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.115013
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2756389
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Sumario:We provide five benchmark hidden valley models with perturbative parton showers, which span a wide range of dark shower phenomenology. We consider production through an s-channel, heavy mediator, which can be identified with the SM Higgs. By assuming a set of well-motivated decay portals, one can moreover fix both the branching ratios of the dark mesons and set a lower bound on their lifetime. We provide a public python tool which can be used to generate self-consistent pythia 8 cards for our benchmark models.