Precision tau physics

A Pich - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
Precise measurements of the lepton properties provide stringent tests of the Standard Model
and accurate determinations of its parameters. We overview the present status of τ physics …

[HTML][HTML] Cosmic neutrino pevatrons: A brand new pathway to astronomy, astrophysics, and particle physics

LA Anchordoqui, V Barger, I Cholis, H Goldberg… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
The announcement by the IceCube Collaboration of the observation of 28 cosmic neutrino
candidates has been greeted with a great deal of justified excitement. The data reported so …

Testing leptoquark models in

Y Sakaki, R Watanabe, M Tanaka, A Tayduganov - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
We study potential new physics effects in the B¯→ D (*) τ ν¯ decays. As a particular example
of new physics models, we consider the class of leptoquark models and put the constraints …

Reconstruction and identification of τ lepton decays to hadrons and ντ at CMS

CMS collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the algorithms used by the CMS experiment to reconstruct and identify
τ→ hadrons+ ν τ decays during Run 1 of the LHC. The performance of the algorithms is …

Variational autoencoders for new physics mining at the large hadron collider

O Cerri, TQ Nguyen, M Pierini, M Spiropulu… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract Using variational autoencoders trained on known physics processes, we develop a
one-sided threshold test to isolate previously unseen processes as outlier events. Since the …

The leptoquark Hunter's guide: Pair production

B Diaz, M Schmaltz, YM Zhong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Leptoquarks occur in many new physics scenarios and could be the next big
discovery at the LHC. The purpose of this paper is to point out that a model-independent …

B-decay anomalies in a composite leptoquark model

R Barbieri, CW Murphy, F Senia - The European Physical Journal C, 2017 - Springer
The collection of a few anomalies in semileptonic B-decays, especially in b → c τ ̄ ν b→ c τ
ν¯, invites to speculate about the emergence of some striking new phenomena, perhaps …

The leptoquark Hunter's guide: large coupling

M Schmaltz, YM Zhong - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract Leptoquarks have recently received much attention especially because they may
provide an explanation to the\({R} _ {D^{\left (*\right)}}\kern0. 5em\mathrm {and}\kern0. 5em …

Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks and heavy right-handed neutrinos in final states with two tau leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at  …

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, E Asilar… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract A search is performed for third-generation scalar leptoquarks and heavy right-
handed neutrinos in events containing one electron or muon, one hadronically decaying τ …

Search for scalar leptoquarks in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS experiment

ATLAS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06035, 2016 - arxiv.org
An inclusive search for a new-physics signature of lepton-jet resonances has been
performed by the ATLAS experiment. Scalar leptoquarks, pair-produced in $ pp $ collisions …