Perturbative benchmark models for a dark shower search program

by Prof. Jessie Shelton (UIUC)

Thursday 6 May 2021, 10:00 → 11:30 Asia/Seoul

Title: Perturbative benchmark models for a dark shower search program

Speaker: Prof. Jessie Shelton (UIUC)

Abstract: We provide five benchmark hidden valley models with perturbative parton showers, which span a wide range of dark shower phenomenology. We consider production through an s-channel, heavy mediator, which can be identified with the SM Higgs. By assuming a set of well-motivated decay portals, one can moreover fix both the branching ratios of the dark mesons and set a lower bound on their lifetime. We provide a public python tool which can be used to generate self-consistent PYTHIA 8 cards for our benchmark models.