Note on 125 GeV Spin-2 particle
Abstract
A new boson around 125 GeV without specific spin has been observed by both ATLAS and CMS at the LHC. Since its decay into a diphoton excludes the spin-1 case by the Landau-Yang theorem,it leaves 0 or 2 as the possible lowest spin for the new boson. Instead of the well-established spin-0 Higgs-like boson, we take this new boson to be a spin-2 massive Graviton-like particle denoted as , which exists copiously in extra-dimension theories, and concentrate on its phenomenology. In particular, we calculate the three-body decays of with and the gauge boson and fermions in the standard model (SM) and compare our results with those of the SM Higgs boson. The couplings between and s are also estimated by fitting the data. A new observable that can distinguish from the Higgs is proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.5103,
title = {Note on 125 GeV Spin-2 particle},
author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Da Huang and Yong Tang and Yue-Liang Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5103},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures, some detail derivations and references added, new version accepted by PLB