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Contur for Light Scalar Particles

Susan Shotkin Gascon-Shotkin, Linda Finco, Sijing Zhang, Grégory Moreau, Peter Richardson, Sylvain Fichet, David Grellscheid, Jon Butterworth, David Yallup…

Joint with Higgs group. Other projects using Contur.

Herwig status

Herwig not dealing with UFO file properly. PR aiming to fix the 3D vertex. This is now fixed. Peter has implemented the relevant vertices in Herwig/ThePEG and its UFO interface, and validated the cross section against MadGraph. This is not yet in 7.1.1 but is in the Herwig 7 trunk in the repository, hopefully in next release. The exception is the 5-point vertices which are used in the CP-even model:

 Warning: Lorentz structure VVVVS ( g g g g phiNP ) in V_49 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVSSS ( W- W+ H H phiNP ) in V_118 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVVVS ( a a W- W+ phiNP ) in V_122 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVVVS ( W- W- W+ W+ phiNP ) in V_126 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVVVS ( a W- W+ Z phiNP ) in V_150 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVSSS ( Z Z H H phiNP ) in V_156 is not supported.
 Warning: Lorentz structure VVVVS ( W- W+ Z Z phiNP ) in V_160 is not supported.

These are currently ignored - hope they aren't a major effect (they don't look like they should be…)

Suggested parameter ranges from Sylvain:

 CP-even scalar:
 mphi in [10, 100] GeV
 f0B in [1, 10] TeV
 f0W in [1, 10] TeV
 f0H in [1, 10] TeV
 CP-odd scalar:
 mphi in [10, 100] GeV
 f0B in [1, 10] TeV
 f0W in [1, 10] TeV
 For each case, all the other f's should be set to very large values. 

CP-odd results

So, here is a scan using these ranges for the CP-odd scalar model (f0 value labelled $\Lambda$ on the vertical axis, $M_\phi$ on the horizontal. Hetmap and 95% exclusion contour.

… so this looks promising. Everything excluded except the lowest mass/highest scale. This needs to be carefully checked, of course - see below. Basically all the yellow region above is excluded by the ATLAS diphoton cross sections: arXiv:1704.03839. If those are not included, the ATLAS $Z+\gamma$ measurements (in dilepton+photon and MET+photon) have quite some power on their own, see below.

$l^+l^- + \gamma$ Missing ET + $\gamma$

Here are the plots from some of the points on the grid. (See here for an explanation of the plot format.)

$M_\phi = 10$ GeV, $\Lambda = 3.5$ TeV
Page of plots: The most powerful exclusion comes from the $\gamma + E_T^{\rm miss}$ channel, specifically the $E_T^\gamma$ differential cross section for events with no jets, in this paper. There is also some exclusion from the $\tau$ distribution in the $H \rightarrow \gamma\gamma$ paper - see below for more on that.
$M_\phi = 20$ GeV, $\Lambda = 3.5$ TeV
Page of plots: Another low mass, moderate coupling point. Chosen because for this one, diphoton measurements give the most powerful exclusion (although $\gamma + E_T^{\rm miss}$ still contributes). The inclusive diphotons would contribute at low $M_{\gamma\gamma}$, because the 20 GeV mass of the $\phi$ now sneaks into the measurement at the bottom of the range, but the most sensitive plot in the diphoton category (and thus the one chosen by Contur) is again from the Higgs paper, this time $p_T^{\gamma\gamma}$. This is maybe surprising because the Higgs measurement has a mass window cut at $105 < M^{\gamma\gamma} < 160$ GeV, much higher than $M_\phi$. The contribution to the Higgs fiducial phase space seems to be coming from $q\bar{q} \rightarrow \phi \gamma$ events, where the additional photon pairs with one of the $\phi$ decay products. This interesting but should probably not be taken face value because it is not clear how such a contribution would impact on the continuum in the fits used to extract the $H \rightarrow \gamma\gamma$ cross section.
$M_\phi = 80$ GeV, $\Lambda = 7.5$ TeV
Page of plots: This point is chosen to look at the higher end of the $M_\phi$ range, where the sensitivity is greater, and so we look at a high $\Lambda$ value. Again the sensitivity is driven by the $\gamma\gamma + E_T^{\rm miss}$ cross section in this paper.
CP-even results

A similar run for the CP-even scalar model, using the parameters sugested by Sylvain, gives the heatmap below:

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(This is 8 TeV only, will update.) Again, the inclusive diphotons and the Z+jet results both have significant sensitivity.

$l^+l^- + \gamma$ MET + $\gamma$ $\gamma\gamma$

Remember, big caveat on this is that the data is assumed to exactly agree with the SM, which means (given we only really know that these data are consistent with the SM) that we are neglected the SM theory uncertainties.

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