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Finding flavons at colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-12-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We conduct a comprehensive investigation into the flavour phenomenology and collider signatures of flavon of ZN×ZM\mathcal{Z}_{\rm N} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm M} flavour symmetries for the soft symmetry-breaking scenario and a new symmetry-conserving mechanism at the high-luminosity LHC, high energy LHC, and a 100 TeV hadron collider. The flavour physics of quark and leptonic observables places different bounds on the parameter space of flavons of ZN×ZM\mathcal{Z}_{\rm N} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm M} flavour symmetries. On the collider side, the decay tcat \rightarrow c a can be probed by the high-luminosity LHC, high energy LHC, and a 100 TeV hadron collider for the Z8×Z22\mathcal{Z}_{\rm 8} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm 22} flavour symmetry. The inclusive production signatures can be used to probe the flavon of all the ZN×ZM\mathcal{Z}_{\rm N} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm M} flavour symmetries for the soft symmetry-breaking scenario for a heavy flavon at a 100 TeV collider. Flavons of all the ZN×ZM\mathcal{Z}_{\rm N} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm M} flavour symmetries can be probed at high energy LHC and a 100 TeV collider for a low mass in the case of soft symmetry-breaking. The di-flavon production is within reach of the high-luminosity LHC, high energy LHC, and a 100 TeV collider only for a light flavon. The 14 TeV high-luminosity LHC can probe only the Z2×Z5\mathcal{Z}_{\rm 2} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm 5} and Z8×Z22\mathcal{Z}_{\rm 8} \times \mathcal{Z}_{\rm 22} flavour symmetries for a few specific inclusive signatures. The symmetry-conserving scenario remains beyond the detection capabilities of any collider.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.09255,
  title  = {Finding flavons at colliders},
  author = {Gauhar Abbas and Ashutosh Kumar Alok and Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat and Najimuddin Khan and Neelam Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.09255},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

66 pages, 31 figures, title slightly changed, accepted version in Phys. Rev. D

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