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Title: Collider tests of the Renormalizable Coloron Model

Abstract

The coloron, a massive version of the gluon present in gauge extensions of QCD, has been searched for at the LHC as a dijet or top quark pair resonance. We point out that in the Renormalizable Coloron Model (ReCoM) with a minimal field content to break the gauge symmetry, a color-octet scalar and a singlet scalar are naturally lighter than the coloron because they are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons. Consequently, the coloron may predominantly decay into scalar pairs, leading to novel signatures at the LHC. When the color-octet scalar is lighter than the singlet, or when the singlet mass is above roughly 1 TeV, the signatures consist of multi-jet resonances of multiplicity up to 12, including topologies with multi-prong jet substructure, slightly displaced vertices, and sometimes a top quark pair. When the singlet is the lightest ReCoM boson and lighter than about 1 TeV, its main decays ($W^+W^-$, $$\gamma Z$$, $ZZ$) arise at three loops. The LHC signatures then involve two or four boosted electroweak bosons, often originating from highly displaced vertices, plus one or two pairs of prompt jets or top quarks.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1422194
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-17-555-T; arXiv:1802.03005
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; 1653953
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Bai, Yang, and Dobrescu, Bogdan A. Collider tests of the Renormalizable Coloron Model. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2018)114.
Bai, Yang, & Dobrescu, Bogdan A. Collider tests of the Renormalizable Coloron Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)114
Bai, Yang, and Dobrescu, Bogdan A. 2018. "Collider tests of the Renormalizable Coloron Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2018)114. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1422194.
@article{osti_1422194,
title = {Collider tests of the Renormalizable Coloron Model},
author = {Bai, Yang and Dobrescu, Bogdan A.},
abstractNote = {The coloron, a massive version of the gluon present in gauge extensions of QCD, has been searched for at the LHC as a dijet or top quark pair resonance. We point out that in the Renormalizable Coloron Model (ReCoM) with a minimal field content to break the gauge symmetry, a color-octet scalar and a singlet scalar are naturally lighter than the coloron because they are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons. Consequently, the coloron may predominantly decay into scalar pairs, leading to novel signatures at the LHC. When the color-octet scalar is lighter than the singlet, or when the singlet mass is above roughly 1 TeV, the signatures consist of multi-jet resonances of multiplicity up to 12, including topologies with multi-prong jet substructure, slightly displaced vertices, and sometimes a top quark pair. When the singlet is the lightest ReCoM boson and lighter than about 1 TeV, its main decays ($W^+W^-$, $\gamma Z$, $ZZ$) arise at three loops. The LHC signatures then involve two or four boosted electroweak bosons, often originating from highly displaced vertices, plus one or two pairs of prompt jets or top quarks.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP04(2018)114},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1422194}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
issn = {1029-8479},
number = 4,
volume = 2018,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}