{
  "id": "1701.03115",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-01-11T19:00:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-01-11T19:00:27.000Z",
  "title": "The Z boson spin observables as messengers of new physics",
  "authors": [
    "J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra",
    "J. Bernabéu",
    "V. A. Mitsou",
    "A. Segarra"
  ],
  "comment": "LaTeX 13 pages",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "We demonstrate that the 8 multipole parameters describing the spin state of the $Z$ boson are able to disentangle known $Z$ production mechanisms and signals from new physics at the LHC. They can be extracted from appropriate asymmetries in the angular distribution of lepton pairs from the $Z$ boson decay. The power of this analysis is illustrated by (i) the production of $Z$ boson plus jets; (ii) $Z$ boson plus missing transverse energy; (iii) $W$ and $Z$ bosons originating from the two-body decay of a heavy resonance.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-01-11T19:00:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "boson spin observables",
      "messengers",
      "boson plus missing transverse energy",
      "boson plus jets",
      "two-body decay"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}