Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-06-23
Phys.Rev.D78:095009,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.095009
One of the first orders of business for LHC experiments after beam turn-on will be to calibrate the detectors using well understood Standard Model (SM) processes such as W and Z production and ttbar production. These familiar SM processes can be used to calibrate the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters, and also to calibrate the associated missing transverse energy signal. However, the presence of new physics may already affect the results coming from these standard benchmark processes. We show that the presence of relatively low mass supersymmetry (SUSY) particles may give rise to significant deviations from SM predictions of Z+jets and W+jets events for jet multiplicity $\ge 4$ or $\ge 5$, respectively. Furthermore, the presence of low mass SUSY may cause non-standard deviations to appear in top quark invariant and transverse mass distributions. Thus, effects that might be construed as detector mal-performance could in fact be the presence of new physics. We advocate several methods to check when new physics might be present within SM calibration data.
Baer Howard
Barger Vernon
Shaughnessy Gabe
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