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Searches for New Physics that couple with third generation fermions
by Valeria D’Amante on behalf of the CMS Collaboration
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Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Valeria D'Amante |
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Preprint Link: | scipost_202406_00047v1 (pdf) |
Date accepted: | Jan. 7, 2025 |
Date submitted: | June 19, 2024, 7:59 p.m. |
Submitted by: | D'Amante, Valeria |
Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
Proceedings issue: | 17th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2023) |
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Academic field: | Physics |
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Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
The τ lepton, with a mass of 1776.86±0.12 MeV, is unique in its ability to decay into hadrons and a neutrino. Approximately one-third of τ decays produce an electron or a muon and two neutrinos, denoted as τe and τμ. The remaining decays, mainly involving hadrons and a tau neutrino, are denoted as τh. At the CERN LHC, searches involving τ leptons are crucial for studying the decay of Higgs bosons to τ pairs, probing Yukawa couplings, and CP properties of the Higgs. These measurements support Standard Model (SM) tests and searches for Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics, including new or heavy Higgs bosons, leptoquarks, supersymmetric particles, or gauge bosons. The τ lepton polarization in Z boson decays is also significant for probing the SM. Despite its potential as a portal to new physics, the τ lepton’s decay products, especially neutrinos and hadrons, make its reconstruction and identification challenging at the LHC. At the CMS experiment, neutrinos contribute to Missing Transverse Energy (MET), and hadronically decaying τ leptons are often misidentified as jets, complicating the separation of τ -involved processes from background processes.
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 17, 015 (2025)
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Report #1 by Swagato Banerjee (Referee 1) on 2024-11-25 (Invited Report)
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The overall scientific quality of this contribution is high. Perhaps one typo could be corrected if the authors choose to do so: do not capitalize "Implemented in software" in 2nd last sentence in Section 1.
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Publish (surpasses expectations and criteria for this Journal; among top 10%)