2015/12/31 by Nathaniel Craig, Patrick Draper, Can Kılıç +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Collider #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Pseudoscalar #Quark #Resonance (particle physics) #Scalar boson #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.93.115023
published as Phys. Rev. D 93, 115023 (2016) · 32 pages, 4 figures. v2: Title changed, additional minor modifications in the text (conclusions unchanged), references added. v3: Minor modifications (conclusions unchanged), matches published version
openalex publication_date 2016/06/16 · arxiv created 2016/06/27 · arxiv updated 2016/06/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
The experimental and theoretical implications of heavy digauge boson resonances that couple to, or are comprised of, new charged and strongly interacting matter are investigated. Observation and measurement of ratios of the resonant digauge boson channels WW, ZZ, \ensuremathγ\ensuremathγ, Z\ensuremathγ, and gg in the form of dijets provide a rather direct---and for some ratios a rather robust---probe of the gauge representations of the new matter. For a spin-zero resonance with the quantum numbers of the vacuum, the ratios of resonant WW and ZZ to \ensuremathγ\ensuremathγ channels, as well as the longitudinal vs transverse polarization fractions in the WW and ZZ channels, provide probes for possible mixing with the Higgs boson, while di-Higgs and ditop resonant channels, hh and tt, provide somewhat less sensitivity. We present a survey of possible underlying models for digauge boson resonances by considering various limits for the mass of the new charged and strongly interacting matter fields as well as the confinement scale of new hypergauge interactions under which they may also be charged. In these limits, resonances may be included as elementary weakly coupled spin-zero states or can correspond to hyperglueballs, hyperonia, or pseudoscalar hypermesons. For each of these cases, we make predictions for additional states that could be resonantly or pair produced and observed at the Large Hadron Collider or in future collider experiments. Heavy digauge boson resonances can provide a unified explanation for a number of small discrepancies and excesses in reported data from the Large Hadron Collider.