Traces of a triboson resonance
Abstract
We show that the relatively small but coincident excesses observed around 2 TeV in the ATLAS Run 1 and Run 2 hadronic diboson searches --- when a cut on the number of tracks in the fat jets is not applied --- and the null results of all remaining high-mass diboson searches are compatible with the decay of a triboson resonance into plus an extra particle . These decays can take place via new neutral () or charged () particles, namely , with , or , with . An obvious candidate for such intermediate particle is a neutral one , given a excess found at 650 GeV by the CMS Collaboration in searches for intermediate mass diboson resonances decaying to , with . We discuss discovery strategies for triboson resonances with small modifications of existing hadronic searches.
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@article{arxiv.1607.08911,
title = {Traces of a triboson resonance},
author = {J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra and J. H. Collins and S. Lombardo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08911},
year = {2016}
}
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LaTeX 32 pages, 38 figures. v2: Figs. 6, 9 and 11 modified. v3: added VH search in hadronic final state. v4: final published version