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Article Dans Une Revue Physics Letters B Année : 2016

Update on 750 GeV diphotons from closed string states

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Motivated by the recent update on LHC searches for narrow and broad resonances decaying into diphotons we reconsider the possibility that the observed peak in the invariant mass spectrum at Mγγ=750 GeVMγγ=750 GeV originates from a closed string (possibly axionic) excitation φ (associated with low mass scale string theory) that has a coupling with gauge kinetic terms. We reevaluate the production of φ by photon fusion to accommodate recent developments on additional contributions to relativistic light–light scattering. We also study the production of φ via gluon fusion. We show that for both a narrow and a broad resonance these two initial topologies can accommodate the excess of events, spanning a wide range of string mass scales 7≲Ms/TeV≲307≲Ms/TeV≲30 that are consistent with the experimental lower bound: Ms>7 TeVMs>7 TeV, at 95% CL. We demonstrate that for the two production processes the LHC13 data is compatible with the lack of a diphoton excess in LHC8 data within ∼1σ∼1σ. We also show that if the resonance production is dominated by gluon fusion the null results on dijet searches at LHC8 further constrain the coupling strengths of φ, but without altering the range of possible string mass scales.
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hal-01426038 , version 1 (04-01-2017)

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Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ignatios Antoniadis, Haim Goldberg, Xing Huang, Dieter Lüst, et al.. Update on 750 GeV diphotons from closed string states. Physics Letters B, 2016, 759, pp.223-228. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.063⟩. ⟨hal-01426038⟩
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