Constraining models with extra heavy gauge bosons using LHC measurements

Abstract

We discuss significant improvements to our calculation of electroweak (EW) $t\bar{t}$ hadroproduction in extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with extra heavy neutral and charged spin-1 resonances using the Recola2 package. We allow for flavour-non-diagonal $Z'$ couplings and take into account non-resonant production in the SM and beyond including the contributions with t-channel $W$- and $W'$-bosons. We include next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections and consistently match to parton showers with the POWHEG method fully taking into account the interference effects between SM and new physics amplitudes. We briefly describe the Contour method and give some information about the Rivet repository which catalogues particle-level measurements subsequently used by Contur to set limits on beyond the SM (BSM) theories. We explain how we use our calculation within Contour in order to set limits on models with additional heavy gauge bosons using LHC measurements, and illustrate this with an example using the leptophobic Topcolour (TC) model.