CheckMATE 2: From the model to the limit

D Dercks, N Desai, JS Kim, K Rolbiecki… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present the latest developments to the CheckMATE program that allows models of new
physics to be easily tested against the recent LHC data. To achieve this goal, the core of …

Collider limits on new physics within micrOMEGAs_4. 3

D Barducci, G Bélanger, J Bernon, F Boudjema… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Results from the LHC put severe constraints on models of new physics. This includes
constraints on the Higgs sector from the precise measurement of the mass and couplings of …

SModelS v1. 1 user manual: Improving simplified model constraints with efficiency maps

F Ambrogi, S Kraml, S Kulkarni, U Laa, A Lessa… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
SModelS is an automatized tool for the interpretation of simplified model results from the
LHC. It allows to decompose models of new physics obeying a Z 2 symmetry into simplified …

Direct bounds on heavy toplike quarks with standard and exotic decays

M Chala - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Heavy vectorlike quarks with electric charge Q= 2/3 (also called heavy tops) appear
naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model. Although these typically predict the …

Single production of vectorlike quarks with large width at the Large Hadron Collider

A Carvalho, S Moretti, D O'Brien, L Panizzi, H Prager - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Vectorlike quarks (VLQs) are predicted by several theoretical scenarios of new physics and
having colour quantum numbers they can copiously be produced at the Large Hadron …

Reinterpretation of LHC results for new physics: Status and recommendations after run 2

W Abdallah, S AbdusSalam, A Ahmadov, A Ahriche… - SciPost physics, 2020 - scipost.org
We report on the status of efforts to improve the reinterpretation of searches and
measurements at the LHC in terms of models for new physics, in the context of the LHC …

Scalar versus fermionic top partner interpretations of searches at the LHC

S Kraml, U Laa, L Panizzi, H Prager - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We assess how different ATLAS and CMS searches for supersymmetry in
the\(t\overline {t}+{E} _T^{\mathrm {miss}}\) final state at Run 1 of the LHC constrain …

Production of extra quarks decaying to dark matter beyond the narrow width approximation at the LHC

S Moretti, D O'Brien, L Panizzi, H Prager - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
This paper explores the effects of finite width in processes of pair production of an extra
heavy quark with charge 2/3 (top partner) and its subsequent decay into a bosonic dark …

Interplay of vector-like top partner multiplets in a realistic mixing set-up

G Cacciapaglia, A Deandrea, N Gaur, D Harada… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC have performed analyses on the
existing data sets, studying the case of one vector-like fermion or multiplet coupling to the …

Phenomenology of 2HDM with vectorlike quarks

A Arhrib, R Benbrik, SJD King, B Manaut, S Moretti… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
In this paper, we examine the consistency of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data collected
during Runs 1 and 2 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments with the predictions of a 2-Higgs …