The LHC phenomenology of vectorlike confinement

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)128zbMATH Open1272.81213arXiv1001.4526MaRDI QIDQ367658FDOQ367658

C. Kılıç, Takemichi Okui

Publication date: 16 September 2013

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

Abstract: We investigate in detail the LHC phenomenology of "vectorlike confinement", where the Standard Model is augmented by a new confining gauge interaction and new light fermions that carry vectorlike charges under both the Standard Model and the new gauge group. If the new interaction confines at the TeV scale, this framework gives rise to a wide range of exotic collider signatures such as the production of a vector resonance that decays to a pair of collider-stable charged massive particles (a "di-CHAMP" resonance), to a pair of collider-stable massive colored particles (a "di-R-hadron resonance), to multiple photons, $W$s and $Z$s via two intermediate scalars, and/or to multi-jet final states. To study these signals at the LHC, we set up two benchmark models: one for the di-CHAMP and multi-photon signals, and the other for the di-R-hadron and multijet signals. For the di-CHAMP/multi-photon model, Standard Model backgrounds are negligible, and we show that a full reconstruction of the spectrum is possible, providing powerful evidence for vectorlike confinement. For the di-R-hadron/multijet model, we point out that in addition to the di-R-hadron signal, the rate of the production of four R-hadrons can also be sizable at the LHC. This, together with the multi-jet signals studied in earlier work, makes it possible to single out vectorlike confinement as the underlying dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4526

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelphenomenological modelshadronic colliders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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Cited In (5)

• The light-ray OPE and conformal colliders
• Analysis of scalar Dark Matter in a minimal vectorlike Standard Model extension
• Covariant description of flavor conversion in the LHC era
• Composite dark sectors
• Vectorlike confinement at the LHC

Uses Software

• CalcHEP
• CompHep
• MadGraph
• MadEvent
• PYTHIA8

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