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Symmetry Restored in Dibosons at the LHC?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-11-13 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A number of LHC resonance search channels display an excess in the invariant mass region of 1.8 - 2.0 TeV. Among them is a 3.4σ3.4\,\sigma excess in the fully hadronic decay of a pair of Standard Model electroweak gauge bosons, in addition to potential signals in the HWHW and dijet final states. We perform a model-independent cross-section fit to the results of all ATLAS and CMS searches sensitive to these final states. We then interpret these results in the context of the Left-Right Symmetric Model, based on the extended gauge group SU(2)L×SU(2)R×U(1)SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)', and show that a heavy right-handed gauge boson WRW_R can naturally explain the current measurements with just a single coupling gR0.4g_R \sim 0.4. In addition, we discuss a possible connection to dark matter.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1507.00013,
  title  = {Symmetry Restored in Dibosons at the LHC?},
  author = {Johann Brehmer and JoAnne Hewett and Joachim Kopp and Thomas Rizzo and Jamie Tattersall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00013},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, 12 figures, V2: references added, extended discussion of Minimal Left-Right Dark Matter, small correction to decay width - conclusions unchanged, V3: expanded discussion of input parameters and statistical procedure, V4: matches published version