NLO predictions for the production of a spin-two particle at the LHC

Abstract

We obtain predictions accurate at the next-to-leading order in QCD for the production of a generic spin-two particle in the most relevant channels at the LHC: production in association with coloured particles (inclusive, one jet, two jets and $t\bar{t}$), with vector bosons ($Z,W^{\pm },\gamma$) and with the Higgs boson. We present total and differential cross sections as well as branching ratios as a function of the mass and the collision energy also considering the case of non-universal couplings to standard model particles. We find that the next-to-leading order corrections give rise to sizeable $K$ factors for many channels, in some cases exposing the unitarity-violating behaviour of non-universal couplings scenarios, and in general greatly reduce the theoretical uncertainties. Our predictions are publicly available in the MadGraph5\_aMC@NLO framework and can, therefore, be directly used in experimental simulations of spin-two particle production for arbitrary values of the mass and couplings.

10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; v2: update references, rewrite the introduction, add mass scanning, remove all 750 GeV references, the model file can be found http://feynrules.irmp.ucl.ac.be/wiki/NLOModels

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