CERN LHC signals from warped extra dimensions
Agashe, Kaustubh, Belyaev, Alexander, Krupovnickas, Tadas, Perez, Gilad and Virzi, Joseph (2008) CERN LHC signals from warped extra dimensions. Physical Review D, 77, (1), 015003-[11pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.015003).
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We study production of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gluons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the framework of a warped extra dimension with the standard model fields propagating in the bulk. We show that the detection of the KK gluon is challenging since its production is suppressed by small couplings to the proton’s constituents. Moreover, the KK gluon decays mostly to top pairs due to an enhanced coupling and hence is broad. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that for MKKG≲4 TeV, 100 fb-1 of data at the LHC can provide discovery of the KK gluon. We utilize a sizable left-right polarization asymmetry from the KK gluon resonance to maximize the signal significance, and we explore the novel feature of extremely highly energetic “top-jets.” We briefly discuss how the detection of electroweak gauge KK states (Z/W) faces a similar challenge since their leptonic decays (golden modes) are suppressed. Our analysis suggests that other frameworks, for example, little Higgs, which rely on UV completion via strong dynamics might face similar challenges, namely, (1) suppressed production rates for the new particles (such as Z′), due to their “light-fermion-phobic” nature, and (2) difficulties in detection since the new particles are broad and decay predominantly to third generation quarks and longitudinal gauge bosons
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1550-7998 (print) 1550-2368 (electronic) 1538-4500 |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Physics and Astronomy > Southampton High Energy Physics |
| Item ID: | 141728 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2010 14:25 |
| Last Modified: | 18 May 2013 01:07 |
| Contributors: | Agashe, Kaustubh (Author) Belyaev, Alexander (Author) Krupovnickas, Tadas (Author) Perez, Gilad (Author) Virzi, Joseph (Author) |
| Date: | 1 January 2008 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/141728 |
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