Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-10-22
Phys.Rev.D80:075015,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
27 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.075015
LHC searches for new physics focus on combinations of hard physics objects. In this work we propose a qualitatively different soft signal for new physics at the LHC - the "anomalous underlying event". Every hard LHC event will be accompanied by a soft underlying event due to QCD and pile-up effects. Though it is often used for QCD and monte carlo studies, here we propose the incorporation of an underlying event analysis in some searches for new physics. An excess of anomalous underlying events may be a smoking-gun signal for particular new physics scenarios such as "quirks" or "hidden valleys" in which large amounts of energy may be emitted by a large multiplicity of soft particles. We discuss possible search strategies for such soft diffuse signals in the tracking system and calorimetry of the LHC experiments. We present a detailed study of the calorimetric signal in a concrete example, a simple quirk model motivated by folded supersymmetry. In these models the production and radiative decay of highly excited quirk bound states leads to an "antenna pattern" of soft unclustered energy. Using a dedicated simulation of a toy detector and a "CMB-like" multipole analysis we compare the signal to the expected backgrounds.
Harnik Roni
Wizansky Tommer
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