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@ARTICLE{Dasgupta:296364,
author = {Dasgupta, Basudeb and Kopp, Joachim and Schwaller, Pedro},
title = {{P}hotons, {P}hoton {J}ets and {D}ark {P}hotons at 750
{G}e{V} and {B}eyond},
reportid = {PUBDB-2016-01400, TIFR-TH-16-05. MITP-16-020. DESY-16-028.
arXiv:1602.04692},
year = {2016},
abstract = {In new physics searches involving photons at the LHC, one
challenge is to distinguish scenarios with isolated photons
from models leading to 'photon jets'. For instance, in the
context of the 750 GeV diphoton excess, it was pointed out
that a true diphoton resonance $S \to \gamma\gamma$ can be
mimicked by a process of the form $p p \to S \to a a \to
4\gamma$, where $S$ is a new scalar with a mass of 750 GeV
and $a$ is a light pseudoscalar decaying to two collinear
photons. Photon jets can be distinguished from isolated
photons by exploiting the fact that a large fraction of
photons convert to an $e^+e^-$ pair inside the inner
detector. In this note, we quantify this discrimination
power, and we study how the sensitivity of future searches
differs for photon jets compared to isolated photons. We
also investigate how our results depend on the lifetime of
the particle(s) decaying to the photon jet. Finally, we
discuss the extension to $S\to A^\prime A^\prime\to
e^+e^-e^+e^-$, where there are no photons at all but the
dark photon $A^\prime$ decays to $e^+e^-$ pairs. Our results
will be useful in future studies of the putative 750 GeV
signal, but also more generally in any new physics search
involving hard photons.},
keywords = {photon: jet (autogen) / new physics (autogen) / two-photon
(autogen) / CERN LHC Coll (autogen) / pseudoscalar (autogen)
/ sensitivity (autogen) / collinear (autogen) / lifetime
(autogen)},
cin = {T},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)T-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF3-611) /
nuDirections - New Directions in Theoretical Neutrino
Physics (637506)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-611 / G:(EU-Grant)637506},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29},
eprint = {1602.04692},
howpublished = {arXiv:1602.04692},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:1602.04692;\%\%$},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/296364},
}