Squared coupling orders and MadSpin

Asked by Hannes

Hi,

we are trying to generate a BSM sample using squared coupling constraints, for example
'p p > j j w+ w $ t t~ NP^2==1'
and would then like to decay the bosons using MadSpin.

Our understanding is that this might result in the correct physics, as the new-physics coupling only affects the quartic gauge coupling but not the decay. This approach does not work out of the box with MadGraph (we encountered an error: "Decay processes cannot specify squared orders constraints") but we found a workaround from question 255413, one can make it run if the NP^2 is simply removed from the LHE file before MadSpin is run.

Are we right to expect this gives reasonable results or is there something we are missing?

Cheers,
Hannes

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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Hi,

Well the True is that no one can really predict what can happen here...
I believe that the result should be reasonable but this certainly requires validation.
Not sure that you can really claim full-spin correlation/...

Cheers,

Olivier

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