Signature of the $\gamma$+jet and dijet production mediated by an excited quark with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC

Abstract

We present a detailed study of the production and decay of the excited quark at the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) level at the Large Hadron Collider, using the narrow width approximation and helicity amplitudes method. We find that the QCD NLO corrections can tighten the constraints on the model parameters and reduce the scale dependencies of the total cross sections. We discuss the signals of the excited quark production with decay mode $q^{\ast }\to q\gamma$ and $q^{\ast }\to qg$, and present several important kinematic distributions. Moreover, we give the upper limits of the excited quark excluded mass range and the allowed parameter space for the coupling constants and the excited quark mass.

20 pages, 13 figures; version published in PRD

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