2024/10/10 by Linda M. Carpenter, Carpenter, Linda M., Katherine Schwind +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.08195
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We explore models where new light exotic states interact with the Standard Model through an asymmetric di-boson portal with one gluon and one W boson. We consider the complete set of effective operators up to dimension 6 which couple a single light exotic (LEX) state to at least one W boson and 1 gluon. Other Standard Model particles may also be present in the interactions. We discover that the W-gluon portal allows us to access a large array of exotic states in non-trivial representations of SU(3) and SU(2). We discuss new single production collider modes and phenomenological signatures for these light exotic states at LHC and e-p colliders.