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WLWL scattering in Higgsless models: Identifying better effective theories

WLWL scattering in Higgsless models: Identifying better effective theories
WLWL scattering in Higgsless models: Identifying better effective theories
The three-site model has been offered as a benchmark for studying the collider phenomenology of Higgsless models. In this paper we analyze how well the three-site model performs as a general exemplar of Higgsless models in describing WLWL scattering, and which modifications can make it more representative. We employ general sum rules relating the masses and couplings of the Kaluza-Klein modes of the gauge fields in continuum and deconstructed Higgsless models as a way to compare the different theories. We show that the size of the four-point vertex for the (unphysical) Nambu-Goldstone modes and the degree to which the sum rules are saturated by contributions from the lowest-lying Kaluza-Klein resonances both provide good measures of the extent to which a highly deconstructed theory can accurately describe the low-energy physics of a continuum 5D Higgsless model. After comparing the three-site model to flat and warped continuum models, we analyze extensions of the three-site model to a longer open linear moose with an additional U(1) group and to a ring ("breaking electroweak symmetry strongly" or "hidden local symmetry") model with three sites and three links. Both cases may be readily analyzed in the framework of the general sum rules. We demonstrate that WLWL scattering in the ring model can very closely approximate scattering in the continuum models, provided that the hidden local symmetry parameter a is chosen to mimic p-meson dominance of ?? scattering in QCD. The hadron and lepton collider phenomenology of both extended models is briefly discussed, with a focus on the complementary information to be gained from precision measurements of the Z' line shape and ZWW coupling at a high-energy lepton collider.
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Belyaev, Alexander
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Chivukula, R.
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Christensen, Neil
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Kurachi, Masafumi
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Simmons, Elizabeth
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Kurachi, Masafumi
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Simmons, Elizabeth
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Belyaev, Alexander, Chivukula, R., Christensen, Neil, He, Hong-Jian, Kurachi, Masafumi, Simmons, Elizabeth and Tanabashi, Masaharu (2009) WLWL scattering in Higgsless models: Identifying better effective theories. Physical Review D, 80 (5), 55022. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.055022).

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The three-site model has been offered as a benchmark for studying the collider phenomenology of Higgsless models. In this paper we analyze how well the three-site model performs as a general exemplar of Higgsless models in describing WLWL scattering, and which modifications can make it more representative. We employ general sum rules relating the masses and couplings of the Kaluza-Klein modes of the gauge fields in continuum and deconstructed Higgsless models as a way to compare the different theories. We show that the size of the four-point vertex for the (unphysical) Nambu-Goldstone modes and the degree to which the sum rules are saturated by contributions from the lowest-lying Kaluza-Klein resonances both provide good measures of the extent to which a highly deconstructed theory can accurately describe the low-energy physics of a continuum 5D Higgsless model. After comparing the three-site model to flat and warped continuum models, we analyze extensions of the three-site model to a longer open linear moose with an additional U(1) group and to a ring ("breaking electroweak symmetry strongly" or "hidden local symmetry") model with three sites and three links. Both cases may be readily analyzed in the framework of the general sum rules. We demonstrate that WLWL scattering in the ring model can very closely approximate scattering in the continuum models, provided that the hidden local symmetry parameter a is chosen to mimic p-meson dominance of ?? scattering in QCD. The hadron and lepton collider phenomenology of both extended models is briefly discussed, with a focus on the complementary information to be gained from precision measurements of the Z' line shape and ZWW coupling at a high-energy lepton collider.

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Published date: 21 September 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 141708
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/141708
ISSN: 1550-7998
PURE UUID: 73d52d08-0702-4554-82f9-1aa8c2e4dd61
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Date deposited: 21 May 2010 10:41
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Author: R. Chivukula
Author: Neil Christensen
Author: Hong-Jian He
Author: Masafumi Kurachi
Author: Elizabeth Simmons
Author: Masaharu Tanabashi

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