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Note on 125 GeV Spin-2 particle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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 GG, which exists copiously in extra-dimension theories, and concentrate on its phenomenology. In particular, we calculate the three-body decays of GVffˉG\rightarrow V f\bar{f}' with VV and f()f^{(\prime)} the gauge boson and fermions in the standard model (SM) and compare our results with those of the SM Higgs boson. The couplings between GG and VVs are also estimated by fitting the data. A new observable that can distinguish GG from the Higgs is proposed.

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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

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