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Electroweak Precision Fit and New Physics in light of $W$ Boson Mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The WW boson mass is one of the most important electroweak precision observables for testing the Standard Model or its extensions. The very recent measured WW boson mass at CDF shows about 7σ7\sigma deviations from the SM prediction, which may challenge the internal consistency of the SM. By performing the global electroweak fit with the new WW-boson, we present the new values of the oblique parameters: S=0.06±0.10S = 0.06 \pm 0.10, T=0.11±0.12T= 0.11 \pm 0.12, U=0.13±0.09U=0.13 \pm 0.09, or S=0.14±0.08S=0.14 \pm 0.08, T=0.26±0.06T= 0.26 \pm 0.06 with U=0U =0 and the corresponding correlation matrices, which strongly indicates the need for the non-degenerate multiplets beyond the SM. As a proof-of-concept, we show that the new results can be accommodated in the two-Higgs doublet model, where the charged Higgs boson has to be either heavier or lighter than both two heavy neutral Higgs bosons. Therefore, searching for these non-SM Higgs bosons will provide a complementary way to test the new physics for the WW boson mass anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.2204.03796,
  title  = {Electroweak Precision Fit and New Physics in light of $W$ Boson Mass},
  author = {Chih-Ting Lu and Lei Wu and Yongcheng Wu and Bin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03796},
  year   = {2022}
}

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two columns, 10 pages, 8 figures