Coupling--mass mapping of di-jet peak searches

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how hypothetical gauge bosons like leptophobic Z' and colorons could produce dijet resonances at the LHC, providing a framework to compare experimental limits across different collider energies.

Contribution

It introduces a coupling-mass mapping approach for dijet resonance searches, enabling direct comparison of results for gauge bosons with baryon number couplings.

Findings

Limits on gauge boson couplings versus mass are presented.

The framework allows comparison across different collider energies.

Results facilitate interpretation of dijet resonance searches.

Abstract

We study hypothetical gauge bosons that may produce dijet resonances at the LHC. Simple renormalizable models include leptophobic Z' bosons or colorons that have flavor-independent couplings and decay into a color-singlet or -octet quark-antiquark pair, respectively. We present the experimental results on dijet resonances at hadron colliders as limits in the coupling-versus-mass plane of a gauge boson associated with baryon number. This theoretical framework facilitates a direct comparison of dijet resonance searches performed at different center-of-mass energies or at different colliders.