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Traces of a triboson resonance

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-12 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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 RR into WZWZ plus an extra particle XX. These decays can take place via new neutral (Y0Y^0) or charged (Y±Y^\pm) particles, namely RY0WR \to Y^0 \, W, with Y0ZXY^0 \to Z X, or RY±ZR \to Y^\pm Z, with Y±WXY^\pm \to W X. An obvious candidate for such intermediate particle is a neutral one Y0Y^0, given a 3.9σ3.9\sigma excess found at 650 GeV by the CMS Collaboration in searches for intermediate mass diboson resonances decaying to ZVZV, with V=W,ZV=W,Z. 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}
}

Comments

LaTeX 32 pages, 38 figures. v2: Figs. 6, 9 and 11 modified. v3: added VH search in hadronic final state. v4: final published version