Authors: Matthew R Buckley Dan Hooper Joachim Kopp Adam Martin Ethan T Neil
Publish Date: 2011/10/13
Volume: 2011, Issue: 10, Pages: 63-
Abstract
The CDF collaboration has reported a 41σ excess in their lepton missing energy and dijets channel This excess which takes the form of an approximately Gaussian peak centered at a dijet invariant mass of 147 GeV has provoked a great deal of experimental and theoretical interest Although the DØ collaboration has reported that they do not observe a signal consistent with CDF there is currently no widely accepted explanation for the discrepancy between these two experiments A resolution of this issue is of great importance — not least because it may teach us lessons relevant for future searches at the LHC — and it will clearly require additional information In this paper we consider the ability of the Tevatron and LHC detectors to observe evidence associated with the CDF excess in a variety of channels We also discuss the ability of selected kinematic distributions to distinguish between Standard Model explanations of the observed excess and various new physics scenariosThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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