Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of the CDF Dijet Excess at the 8-TeV LHC
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Boston Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
- Universite de Savoie (France)
Under the assumption that the dijet excess seen by the CDF Collaboration near 150 Gev in Wjj production is due to the lightest technipion of the low-scale technicolor process $$\rho_T \rightarrow W \pi_T$$, we study its observability in LHC detectors for 8 TeV collisions and 20 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity. We describe interesting new kinematic tests that can provide independent confirmation of this LSTC hypothesis. We show that cuts similar to those employed by CDF, and recently by ATLAS, cannot confirm the dijet signal. We propose cuts tailored to the LSTC hypothesis and its backgrounds at the LHC that may reveal $$\rho_T \rightarrow \ell\nu jj$$. Observation of the isospin-related channel $$\rho^{\pm}_T \rightarrow Z \pi^{\pm}_T \rightarrow \ell^+\ell^- jj$$ and of $$\rho^{\pm}_T \rightarrow WZ$$ in the $$\ell^+\ell^-\ell^{pm}\nu_\ell$$ and $$\ell^+\ell^- jj$$ modes will be important confirmations of the LSTC interpretation of the CDF signal. The $$Z\pi_T$$ channel is experimentally cleaner than $$W\pi_T$$ and its rate is known from $$W\pi_T$$ by phase space. It can be discovered or excluded with the collider data expected by the end of 2012. The $$WZ \rightarrow 3\ell\nu$$ channel is cleanest of all and its rate is determined from $$W\pi_T$$ and the LSTC parameter $$\sin\chi$$. This channel and $$WZ \to \ell^+\ell^- jj$$ are discussed as a function of $$\sin\chi$$.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1155797
- Report Number(s):
- LAPTH-025-12; FERMILAB-PUB-12-253-T; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1206.0186
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 86, Issue 7; ISSN 1550-7998
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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