https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4201-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Wide or narrow? The phenomenology of 750 GeV diphotons
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
* e-mail: mbuckley@physics.rutgers.edu
Received:
8
June
2016
Accepted:
13
June
2016
Published online:
22
June
2016
I perform a combined analysis of the ATLAS and CMS diphoton data, using both Run-I and Run-II results, including those released at the 2016 Moriond conference. I find combining the ATLAS and CMS results from Run-II increases the statistical significance of the reported 750 GeV anomaly, assuming a spin-0 mediator coupling to gluons or heavy quarks with a width much smaller than the detector resolution. This significance does not decrease when the 8 TeV data is included. A spin-2 mediator is disfavored compared to the spin-0 case. The cross section required to fit the ATLAS anomaly is in tension with the aggregate data, all of which prefers a smaller value. The best fit for all models I consider is a 4.0
local significance for a 750 GeV spin-0 mediator coupling to gluons with a cross section of 4 fb at 13 TeV (assuming narrow width) or 10 fb (assuming 
GeV).
© The Author(s), 2016
