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Spectrum-doubled heavy vector bosons at the LHC

Thomas Appelquist, Yang Bai, James Ingoldby, Maurizio Piai Orcid Logo

Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: 2016, Issue: 1

Swansea University Author: Maurizio Piai Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)109

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We study a simple effective field theory incorporating six heavy vector bosons together with the standard-model field content. The new particles preserve custodial symmetry as well as an approximate left-right parity symmetry. The enhanced symmetry of the model allows it to satisfy precision electro...

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Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN: 1029-8479
Published: 2016
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24477
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Abstract: We study a simple effective field theory incorporating six heavy vector bosons together with the standard-model field content. The new particles preserve custodial symmetry as well as an approximate left-right parity symmetry. The enhanced symmetry of the model allows it to satisfy precision electroweak constraints and bounds from Higgs physics in a regime where all the couplings are perturbative and where the amount of fine-tuning is comparable to that in the standard model itself. We find that the model could explain the recently observed excesses in di-boson processes at invariant mass close to 2 TeV from LHC Run 1 for a range of allowed parameter space. The masses of all the particles differ by no more than roughly 10%. In a portion of the allowed parameter space only one of the new particles has a production cross section large enough to be detectable with the energy and luminosity of Run 1, both via its decay to WZ and to Wh, while the others have suppressed production rates. The model can be tested at the higher-energy and higher-luminosity run of the LHC even for an overall scale of the new particles higher than 3 TeV.
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College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
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