Richard Ruiz

Physics at a 100 TeV pp collider: Standard Model processes

This chapter documents the production rates and typical distributions for a number of benchmark Standard Model processes, and discusses new dynamical phenomena arising at the highest energies available at this collider. We discuss the intrinsic physics interest in the measurement of these Standard Model processes, as well as their role as backgrounds for New Physics searches.This chapter documents the production rates and typical distributions for a number of benchmark Standard Model processes, and discusses new dynamical phenomena arising at the highest energies available at this collider. We discuss the intrinsic physics interest in the measurement of these Standard Model processes, as well as their role as backgrounds for New Physics searches.This chapter documents the production rates and typical distributions for a number of benchmark Standard Model processes, and discusses new dynamical phenomena arising at the highest energies available at this collider. We discuss the intrinsic physics interest in the measurement of these Standard Model processes, as well as their role as backgrounds for New Physics searches.

Heavy Majorana neutrinos from Wγ fusion at hadron colliders

A bstractVector boson fusion processes become increasingly more important at higher collider energies and for probing larger mass scales due to collinear logarithmic enhancements of the cross section. In this context, we revisit the production of a hypothetic heavy Majorana neutrino (N) at hadron colliders. Particular attention is paid to the fusion process Wγ → Nℓ±. We systematically categorize the contributions from a photon initial state in the elastic, inelastic, and deeply inelastic channels. Comparing with the leading channel via the Drell-Yan production qq¯′

Neutrino jets from high-mass WR gauge bosons in TeV-scale left-right symmetric models

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Fully-Automated Precision Predictions for Heavy Neutrino Production Mechanisms at Hadron Colliders

→ W*→ Nℓ± at NNLO in QCD, we find that the Wγ fusion process becomes relatively more important at higher scales, surpassing the DY mechanism at mN ∼ 1 TeV (770 GeV), at the 14 TeV LHC (100 TeV VLHC). We investigate the inclusive heavy Majorana neutrino signal, including QCD corrections, and quantify the Standard Model backgrounds at future hadron colliders. We conclude that, with the currently allowed mixing |VμN|2 < 6 × 10−3, a 5σ discovery can be made via the same-sign dimuon channel for mN = 530 (1070) GeV at the 14 TeV LHC (100 TeV VLHC) after 1 ab−1. Reversely, for mN = 500 GeV and the same integrated luminosity, a mixing |VμN|2 of the order 1.1 × 10−3 (2.5 × 10−4) may be probed.

QCD Corrections to Pair Production of Type III Seesaw Leptons at Hadron Colliders

We study the observability for a heavy Majorana neutrino N along with a new charged gauge boson W′ at the LHC. We emphasize the complementarity of these two particles in their production and decay to unambiguously determine their properties. We show that the Majorana nature of N can be verified by the lepton number violating like-sign dilepton process, and by polar and azimuthal angular distributions. The chirality of the W′ coupling to leptons and to quarks can be determined by a polar angle distribution in the reconstructed frame and an azimuthal angle distribution.

Heavy neutrinos from gluon fusion

We reexamine the discovery potential at hadron colliders of high-mass right-handed (RH) gauge bosons

Higgs Bosons from Top Quark Decays

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Safe Jet Vetoes

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