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Casting light on BSM physics with SM standard candles

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The Standard Model (SM) has had resounding success in describing almost every measurement performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. In particular, these experiments have put many beyond the SM models of natural Electroweak Symmetry Breaking into tension with the data. It is therefore remarkable that it is still the LEP experiment, and not the LHC, which often sets the gold standard for understanding the possibility of new color-neutral states at the electroweak (EW) scale. Recently, ATLAS and CMS have started to push beyond LEP in bounding heavy new EW states, but a gap between the exclusions of LEP and the LHC typically remains. In this paper we show that measurements of SM Standard Candles can be repurposed to set entirely complementary constraints on new physics. To demonstrate this, we use W + W −cross section measurements to set bounds on a set of slepton-based simplified models which fill in the gaps left by LEP and dedicated LHC searches. Having demonstrated the sensitivity of the W + W −measurement to light sleptons, we also find regions where sleptons can improve the fit of the data compared to the NLO SM W + W −prediction alone. Remarkably, in those regions the sleptons also provide for the right relic-density of Bino-like Dark Matter and provide an explanation for the longstanding 3σ discrepancy in the measurement of (g − 2)μ.

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    David Curtin, Patrick Meade & Pin-Ju Tien

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Curtin, D., Jaiswal, P., Meade, P. et al. Casting light on BSM physics with SM standard candles. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 68 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)068

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