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The 750 GeV $S$-cion: Where else should we look for it?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-20 v3

Abstract

The resonance SS at 750\sim 750 GeV in the diphoton channel observed by ATLAS and CMS, if it holds up, is almost certainly the (SS)cion of a larger dynasty in a UV completion that may very well be connected to the hierarchy problem. At this stage, however, an effective field theory framework provides a useful way to parametrize searches for this resonance in other channels. Assuming that the excess is due to a new scalar or pseudoscalar boson, we study associated production of SS ("SS-strahlung") at the LHC and propose searches in several clean channels like γγ\gamma\gamma\ell\ell, γγ\eslash\gamma\gamma\ell\eslash and γ\eslash\ell\ell\ell\gamma\eslash to probe dimension-5 operators coupling SS to Standard Model gauge bosons. We consider a range of widths for SS, from 5 GeV to 45 GeV, and find that the three channels probe complementary regions of parameter space and the suppression scale Λ\Lambda. The finding of most immediate relevance is that with 3 fb1^{-1}, the LHC might already reveal new excesses in the γγ\gamma\gamma\ell\ell channel and a 5(3) σ\sigma discovery may already be possible after collecting 65(25) fb1^{-1} of data with γ\eslash\ell\ell\ell\gamma\eslash events if the scale of the new physics is within \sim 9 TeV for couplings respecting 8 TeV LHC bounds and compatible with the observed excess in diphotons for a wide resonance as suggested by the ATLAS Collaboration. Beyond the EFT parametrization, we found realizations of models with heavy vector-like quarks and leptons which can simultaneously fit the diphoton excess and be discovered in the channels proposed here.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06091,
  title  = {The 750 GeV $S$-cion: Where else should we look for it?},
  author = {Alexandre Alves and Alex G. Dias and Kuver Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06091},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures. References and comments added. Version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B