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A Very Narrow Shadow Extra Z-boson at Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We consider the phenomenological consequences of a hidden Higgs sector extending the Standard Model (SM), in which the ``shadow Higgs'' are uncharged under the SM gauge groups. We consider a simple U(1) model with one Higgs singlet. One mechanism which sheds light on the shadow sector is the mixing between the neutral gauge boson of the SM and the additional U(1) gauge group. The mixing happens through the usual mass-mixing and also kinetic-mixing, and is the only way the ``shadow ZZ'' couples to the SM. We study in detail modifications to the electroweak precision tests (EWPTs) that the presence of such a shadow sector would bring, which in turn provide constraints on the kinetic-mixing parameter, sϵs_\epsilon, left free in our model. The shadow ZZ production rate at the LHC and ILC depends on sϵs_\epsilon. We find that observable event rate at both facilities is possible for a reasonable range of sϵs_\epsilon allowed by EWPTs.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608068,
  title  = {A Very Narrow Shadow Extra Z-boson at Colliders},
  author = {We-Fu Chang and John N. Ng and Jackson M. S. Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608068},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures. Note and refs. added