New Physics and Two Boosted W-jets plus Missing Energy

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new collider signature involving two boosted W-jets plus missing energy to effectively search for heavy charged resonances and dark matter candidates at the LHC, outperforming traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel search strategy using jet-substructure techniques for boosted W-jets, enhancing sensitivity to heavy charged resonances and dark matter in collider experiments.

Findings

The proposed signature covers more parameter space than traditional leptonic signatures.

Jet-substructure techniques are effective for analyzing boosted W-jets.

The method is insensitive to the spin of heavy resonances.

Abstract

We show that the signature of two boosted $W$-jets plus large missing energy is very promising to probe heavy charged resonances ($X^\pm$) through the process of $pp\to X^+X^-\to W^+W^- X^0 X^0$ where $X^0$ denotes dark matter candidate. The hadronic decay mode of the $W$ boson is considered to maximize the number of signal events. When the mass split between $X^\pm$ and $X^0$ is large, one has to utilize the jet-substructure technique to analyze the boosted $W$-jet. For illustration we consider the process of chargino pair production at the LHC, i.e., $pp\to \chi_1^+\chi^-_1 \to W^+W^-\chi_1^0\chi_1^0$, and demonstrate that the proposed signature is able to cover more parameter space of $m_{\chi_1^\pm}$ and $m_{\chi_1^0}$ than the conventional signature of multiple leptons plus missing energy. More importantly, the signature of our interests is not sensitive to the spin of heavy resonances.