2012/09/24 by Jason Kumar, Arvind Rajaraman, David Yaylali
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Large Hadron Collider #Mathematics #Parameter space #Parity (physics) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Spin (aerodynamics) #Statistics #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.86.115019
18 pages, 10 figures
arxiv created 2012/09/24 · openalex publication_date 2012/12/17 · arxiv updated 2013/05/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the prospects for production and detection of fermiophobic bosons (exotic bosons decaying only to standard model gauge bosons) at the LHC, and describe simple methods for determining spin. We consider two complementary approaches to spin determination: the search for decays in the diphoton channel, and the comparison of events with no extra spectator jets to those with one extra jet. We show that these approaches can together allow the fermiophobic boson's spin to be determined over a wide range of parameter space. We study both even and odd parity states.