Telling the spin of the di-photon resonance

Abstract

We argue that the spin of the 750 GeV resonance can be determined at the 99.7% confidence level in the di-photon channel with as few as 10 fb${}^{-1}$ of luminosity. This result is true if the resonance is produced by gluon fusion (independently of the selection cuts) while an appropriate choice of selection cuts is needed if quark production is sub-dominantly present--which is the case of the Kaluza-Klein gravitational excitation under the hypothesis of a spin-2 resonance. A proportionally larger luminosity is required if the model for the spin-2 resonance includes a dominant production by quarks or in the absence of an efficient separation of the signal from the background.

Comments: 21 pages, 21 figures