Simulating spin-$ \frac{3}{2}$ particles at colliders

Support for interactions of spin-3/2 particles is implemented in the FeynRules and ALOHA packages and tested with the MadGraph 5 and CalcHEP event generators in the context of three phenomenological applications. In the first, we implement a spin-3/2 Majorana gravitino field, as in local supersymmetric models, and study gravitino and gluino pair-production. In the second, a spin-3/2 Dirac top-quark excitation, inspired from compositness models, is implemented. We then investigate both top-quark excitation and top-quark pair-production. In the third, a general effective operator for a spin-3/2 Dirac quark excitation is implemented, followed by a calculation of the angular distribution of the s-channel production mechanism.

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20 pages, 7 figures

top: excited state
quark: excited state
top: pair production
gluino: pair production
supersymmetry
gravitino
angular distribution
Monte Carlo
Majorana
spin: 3/2

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