22-30 July 2021
North-West University
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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The anatomy of the multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC and the potential connection with other anomalies

29 Jul 2021, 12:45
15m
Potchefstroom Campus (North-West University)

Potchefstroom Campus

North-West University

Oral Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Speaker

Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

In this presentation an account of the multi-lepton (electrons and muons) anomalies at the LHC will be given. These include the excess production of opposite sign leptons with and without $b$-quarks, including a corner of the phase-space with a full hadronic jet veto; same sign leptons with and without b-quarks; three leptons with and without $b$-quarks, including also the presence of a $Z$. Excesses emerge in corners of the phase space where a range of SM processes dominate, indicating that the potential mismodeling of a particular SM process is unlikely to explain them. A procedure is implemented that avoids parameter tuning or scanning the phase-space in order to nullify potential look-else-where effects or selection biases. The internal consistency of these anomalies and their interpretation in the framework of a simplified model will be presented. Implications on the SM Higgs boson measurements, the muon g-2, astrophysics and other potential deviations from the Standard Model will be discussed.

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Primary author

Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand)

Co-authors

Mukesh Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand) XIFENG RUAN (University of the witwatersrand)

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