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A model for the LHC diboson excess

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-26 v2

Abstract

The first run of the LHC showed hints of a new resonance with mass near 1.91.9 TeV decaying into electroweak gauge boson pairs as well as into dijets. While Run 2 has neither confirmed nor ruled out such a resonance, it has yielded new constraints on models attempting to explain these decays. Additionally in WW' models where this new resonance is a charged vector boson that is a weak isospin singlet there is the potential for conflict with the electroweak precision TT parameter. We construct variants of a WW' resonance model that provide an excellent fit to both Run 1 and Run 2 data, as well as electroweak precision measurements. The model also predicts a neutral vector boson, a ZZ', with mass close to 33 TeV. This ZZ' is compatible with the intriguing Run 2 observation of a dielectron pair with invariant mass of 2.92.9 TeV at CMS.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03578,
  title  = {A model for the LHC diboson excess},
  author = {Manuel Buen-Abad and Andrew G. Cohen and Martin Schmaltz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03578},
  year   = {2016}
}
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