Heavy Flavor Simplified Models at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper develops simplified models for heavy flavor physics at the LHC, providing benchmarks and optimized search strategies to improve detection of new physics involving top and bottom quarks.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive set of simplified models and benchmarks for heavy flavor searches at the LHC, aiding experimental optimization.

Findings

Same-sign dilepton and 3b searches are highly effective for datasets over 1/fb.

Expected sensitivities for various search strategies are provided.

Benchmarks facilitate experimental optimization of heavy flavor searches.

Abstract

We consider a comprehensive set of simplified models that contribute to final states with top and bottom quarks at the LHC. These simplified models are used to create minimal search strategies that ensure optimal coverage of new heavy flavor physics involving the pair production of color octets and triplets. We provide a set of benchmarks that are representative of model space, which can be used by experimentalists to perform their own optimization of search strategies. For data sets larger than 1/fb, same-sign dilepton and 3b search regions become very powerful. Expected sensitivities from existing and optimized searches are given.