Limits on Electroweak Instanton-Induced Processes with Multiple Boson Production

Abstract

Recently, the CMS collaboration has reported their search for electroweak instanton-like processes with anomalous $B+L$ violation assuming multi-fermion but zero-boson final states. On the other hand, many theoretical studies suggest that anomalous $B+L$ processes may have an observably large production rate only if their final state contains a large number of electroweak gauge bosons. In this paper, we compare collider signatures of zero- and multi-boson events of anomalous $B+L$ violation at the LHC and derive an upper limit on the cross-section for the multi-boson process by recasting the CMS analysis.

arXiv comment14 pages, 6 figures; JHEP version with typographic errors fixed

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