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Toward a coherent solution of diphoton and flavor anomalies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a coherent explanation for the 750 GeV diphoton anomaly and the hints of deviations from Lepton Flavor Universality in B decays in terms a new strongly interacting sector with vectorlike confinement. The diphoton excess arises from the decay of one of the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons of the new sector, while the flavor anomalies are a manifestation of the exchange of the corresponding vector resonances (with masses in the 1.5-2.5 TeV range). We provide explicit examples (with detailed particle content and group structure) of the new sector, discussing both the low-energy flavor-physics phenomenology and the signatures at high pTp_T. We show that specific models can provide an excellent fit to all available data. A key feature of all realizations is a sizable broad excess in the tails of τ+τ\tau^+ \tau^- invariant mass distribution in ppτ+τp p \to \tau^+ \tau^-, that should be accessible at the LHC in the near future.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1604.03940,
  title  = {Toward a coherent solution of diphoton and flavor anomalies},
  author = {Dario Buttazzo and Admir Greljo and Gino Isidori and David Marzocca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03940},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

v2: 32 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Published version. Extended discussion about the flavor structure of the model and high-PT phenomenology, typos corrected. Added note about the relevance of the paper in light of the absence of the diphoton signal at the LHC