Real Emission and Virtual Exchange of Gravitons and Unparticles in Pythia8

TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified implementation of graviton and unparticle processes in Pythia8, enabling detailed collider phenomenology studies of extra dimension and unparticle models at the LHC.

Contribution

It provides the first common Monte Carlo implementation of real and virtual graviton and unparticle processes in Pythia8, including UV treatment options.

Findings

Validated the implementation with characteristic collider results

Illustrated effects of model parameters on mono-jet, di-photon, di-lepton signals

Enabled detailed phenomenological studies of extra dimensions and unparticles

Abstract

Models with large extra dimensions as well as unparticle models could give rise to new phenomena at collider experiments due to real emission or virtual exchange of gravitons or unparticles. In this paper we present the common implementation of these processes in the Monte Carlo generator Pythia8, using relations between the parameters of the two models. The program offers several options related to the treatment of the UV region of the effective theories, including the possibility of using a form factor for the running gravitational coupling. Characteristic results obtained with Pythia8 have been used to validate the implementations as well as to illustrate the key features and effects of the model parameters. The results presented in this paper are focused on mono-jet, di-photon and di-lepton final states at the LHC.