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Dijet resonances, widths and all that

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The search for heavy resonances in the dijet channel is part of the on-going physics programme, both at the Tevatron and at the LHC. Lower limits have been placed on the masses of dijet resonances predicted in a wide variety of models. However, across experiments, the search strategy assumes that the effect of the new particles is well-approximated by on-shell production and subsequent decay into a pair of jets. We examine the impact of off-shell effects on such searches, particularly for strongly interacting resonances.

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    Debajyoti Choudhury & Pratishruti Saha

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Choudhury, D., Godbole, R.M. & Saha, P. Dijet resonances, widths and all that. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 155 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2012)155

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