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Exotic Implications of Electron and Photon Final States

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-12-19 v2

Abstract

New resonances with masses of order a few TeV{\rm TeV} might be discovered at the LHC. We show that no resonance that couples to electrons only through Standard Model interactions can decay to both e+ee^+e^-and γγ\gamma \gamma with significant branching ratios. This means that finding both electron-positron and two-photon final states is evidence that electrons couple directly to the new physics associated with the resonance and furthermore that the resonance is not spin-1. The least fine-tuned such examples involve electron compositeness. One such example, Kaluza Klein excitations of the graviton in the version of the Randall Sundrum Model where Standard Model matter is located on the TeV{\rm TeV} brane, can be distinguished from other possibilities by its predicted branching fractions into the two modes.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1746,
  title  = {Exotic Implications of Electron and Photon Final States},
  author = {Lisa Randall and Mark B. Wise},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1746},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, table corrected and reference added

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