Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 1862
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1862-z

Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory

Simulation of sextet diquark production

Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

^* e-mail: d.e.winn@durham.ac.uk

Received: 22 November 2011
Published online: 20 January 2012

Abstract

We present a method for simulating the production and decay of particles in the sextet representation of SU(3) _C including the simulation of QCD radiation. Results from the Monte Carlo simulation of sextet diquark production at the LHC including both resonant and pair production are presented. We include limits on resonant diquark production from recent ATLAS results and perform the first simulation studies of the less model dependent pair production mechanism.