000300805 001__ 300805 000300805 005__ 20250730110424.0 000300805 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4127-4 000300805 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1434-6044 000300805 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1434-6052 000300805 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000376413000004 000300805 0247_ $$2pmid$$apmid:28280432 000300805 0247_ $$2inspire$$ainspire:1421666 000300805 0247_ $$2altmetric$$aaltmetric:5614642 000300805 0247_ $$2arXiv$$aarXiv:1602.04692 000300805 0247_ $$2openalex$$aopenalex:W2276688877 000300805 037__ $$aPUBDB-2016-02425 000300805 041__ $$aEnglish 000300805 082__ $$a530 000300805 088__ $$2DESY$$aDESY-16-028 000300805 088__ $$2Other$$aTIFR-TH-16-05 000300805 088__ $$2Other$$aMITP-16-020 000300805 088__ $$2arXiv$$aarXiv:1602.04692 000300805 0881_ $$aDESY-16-028 000300805 1001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aDasgupta, Basudeb$$b0$$eCorresponding author 000300805 245__ $$aPhotons, photon jets, and dark photons at 750 GeV and beyond 000300805 260__ $$aBerlin$$bSpringer$$c2016 000300805 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000300805 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000300805 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1598514816_15989 000300805 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000300805 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000300805 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000300805 520__ $$aIn 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 $pp \to S \to aa \to 4\gamma$, where $S$ is a new scalar with a mass of 750 GeV and $a$ is alight 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 thelifetime 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. 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