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Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of CDF's Dijet Excess at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-01-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Under the assumption that the dijet excess seen by the CDF Collaboration near 150 Gev in Wjj production is due to the lightest technipion of the low-scale technicolor process ρTWπT\rho_T \rightarrow W \pi_T, we study its observability in LHC detectors with 1--20 inverse femtobarns of data. We describe interesting new kinematic tests that can provide independent confirmation of this LSTC hypothesis. We find that cuts similar to those employed by CDF, and recently by ATLAS, cannot confirm the dijet signal. We propose cuts tailored to the LSTC hypothesis and its backgrounds at the LHC that may reveal ρTνjj\rho_T \rightarrow \ell\nu jj. Observation of the isospin-related channel ρTpmZπTpm+jj\rho^{pm}_T \rightarrow Z \pi^{pm}_T \rightarrow \ell^+ \ell^- jj and of ρTpmWZ\rho^{pm}_T \rightarrow WZ in the three lepton plus neutrino and dilepton plus dijet modes will be important confirmations of the LSTC interpretation of the CDF signal. The ZπTZ\pi_T channel is experimentally cleaner than WπTW\pi_T and its rate is known from WπTW\pi_T by phase space. It can be discovered or excluded with the collider data expected in 2012. The WZ3νWZ \rightarrow 3\ell\nu channel is cleanest of all and its rate is determined from WπTW\pi_T and the LSTC parameter sinχ\sin\chi. This channel and WZ+jjWZ \rightarrow \ell^+\ell^- jj are discussed as a function of sinχ\sin\chi.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4396,
  title  = {Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of CDF's Dijet Excess at the LHC},
  author = {Estia Eichten and Kenneth Lane and Adam Martin and Eric Pilon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4396},
  year   = {2012}
}

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24 pages, 24 figures