Loopholes in Z' searches at the LHC: exploring supersymmetric and leptophobic scenarios

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)092MaRDI QIDQ1748783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jack Y. Araz, G. Corcella, Mariana Frank, Benjamin Fuks

Publication date 14 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06302

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetry phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

Abstract: Searching for heavy vector bosons $Z^{p}rime$, predicted in models inspired by Grand Unification Theories, is among the challenging objectives of the LHC. The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have looked for $Z^{p}rime$ bosons assuming that they can decay only into Standard Model channels, and have set exclusion limits by investigating dilepton, dijet and to a smaller extent top-antitop final states. In this work we explore possible loopholes in these $Z^{p}rime$ searches by studying supersymmetric as well as leptophobic scenarios. We demonstrate the existence of realizations in which the $Z^{p}rime$ boson automatically evades the typical bounds derived from the analyses of the Drell-Yan invariant-mass spectrum. Dileptonic final states can in contrast only originate from supersymmetric $Z^{p}rime$ decays and are thus accompanied by additional effects. This feature is analyzed in the context of judiciously chosen benchmark configurations, for which visible signals could be expected in future LHC data with a $4sigma-7sigma$ significance. Our results should hence motivate an extension of the current $Z^{p}rime$ search program to account for supersymmetric and leptophobic models.

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Uses Software

• HiggsSignals
• FeynRules
• PySLHA
• NLOCT
• HiggsBounds
• SARAH
• FeynArts
• PYTHIA8
• Spheno
• FastJet

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