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Exploring the scattering of vector bosons at LHCb

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 a...

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Autor principal: Pellen, Mathieu
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.013002
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2759251
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Sumario: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.