Publications (67)
Progress on Symmetry Breaking and Generational Mixing in Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
Topcolor-assisted technicolor provides a dynamical explanation for electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking and for the large mass of the top quark without unnatural fine tuning. I…
Heavy Vector Partners of the Light Composite Higgs
Kenneth Lane, Lukas Pritchett
If the Higgs boson is a composite due to new strong interactions at high energy, it has spin-one partners, and , analogous to the and mesons of QCD.…
Higgs alignment and the top quark
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane
There is a surprising connection between the top quark and Higgs alignment in Gildener-Weinberg multi-Higgs doublet models. Were it not for the top quark and its large mass, the co…
Charmonium levels near threshold and the narrow state $X(3872) \to Ï^{+}Ï^{-}\jpsi$
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Chris Quigg
We explore the influence of open-charm channels on charmonium properties, and profile the 1:3D2, 1:3D3 and 2:1P1 charmonium candidates for X(3872). The favored candidates, the 1:3D…
The Composite Higgs Signal at the Next Big Collider
Kenneth Lane
The Gildener-Weinberg (GW) mechanism produces a Higgs boson that is a dilaton. That is, is both naturally light and naturally aligned. It also predicts additional singly-ch…
Technicolor and Precision Tests of the Electroweak Interactions
Kenneth Lane
Precision electroweak measurements have been claimed to eliminate almost all models of technicolor. We show that the assumptions made to calculate the oblique parameters ,,$U…
Electroweak and Flavor Dynamics at Hadron Colliders
Kenneth Lane
We catalog the principal signatures of electroweak and flavor dynamics at $\pbarp$ and colliders for use at the 1996 Snowmass Workshop on New Directions in High Energy Physics…
A Case Study in Dimensional Deconstruction
Kenneth Lane
We test Arkani-Hamed et al.'s dimensional deconstruction on a model that is predicted to have a naturally light composite Higgs boson, i.e., one whose mass M is much less than its…
The Muon Collider
Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450
Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…
Accidental Goldstone Bosons
Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
We study vacuum alignment in theories in which the chiral symmetry of a set of massless fermions is both spontaneously and explicitly broken. We find that transitions occur between…
Strong and Weak CP Violation in Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
I discuss vacuum alignment and CP violation in technicolor theories of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking. I review the surprising appearance of rational phase solutions in t…
An introduction to technicolor
Kenneth Lane
In these lectures we present the motivation for dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and its most popular realization, technicolor. We introduce the basic ideas of technicolor a…
New states above charm threshold
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Chris Quigg
We revise and extend expectations for the properties of charmonium states that lie above charm threshold, in light of new experimental information. We refine the Cornell coupled-ch…
New Model-Independent Limit on Muon Substructure
Kenneth Lane
If the discrepancy between the theoretical and newly measured values of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment is ascribed to muon substructure, there results an improved model--inde…
Top-Production and Flavor Physics--The Talk
Kenneth Lane
Because of the top quark's very large mass, about 175~GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair--production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the…
Symmetry Breaking and Generational Mixing in Topcolor--Assisted Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
Topcolor--assisted technicolor provides a dynamical explanation for electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking and for the large mass of the top quark without unnatural fine tuning.…
Finding Low-Scale Technicolor at Hadron Colliders
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, John Womersley
In multiscale and topcolor-assisted models of walking technicolor, relatively light spin-one technihadrons and exist and are expected to decay as $Ï_T \to W Ï_T, Z…
CP Violation and Flavor Mixing in Technicolor Theories
Adam Martin, Kenneth Lane
Vacuum alignment in technicolor models provides an attractive origin for the quarks' CP violation and, possibly, a natural solution for the strong-CP problem of QCD. We discuss the…
Multiscale Technicolor and Top Production
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane
Pair-production of heavy top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is significantly enhanced by the color--octet technipion, , occurring in multiscale models of walking technicolor…
Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of the CDF Dijet Excess at the 8-TeV LHC
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin +1
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 $Ï_T…
The 30 GeV Dimuon Excess at ALEPH
Kenneth Lane, Lukas Pritchett
A simple variation of a two-Higgs-doublet model is proposed to describe the dimuon excess reported by Heister in his reanalysis of events in ALEPH d…
MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters
Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459
This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…
MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters
Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391
This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…
B-Meson Gateways to Missing Charmonium Levels
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Chris Quigg
We outline a coherent strategy for exploring the four remaining narrow charmonium states [$η_{c}^{\prime}(2\slj{1}{1}{0})$, $h_{c}(1\slj{1}{2}{1})$, $η_{c2}(1\slj{1}{3}{2})$, and…
An Effective Lagrangian for Low-Scale Technicolor
Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
We present an effective Lagrangian for low-scale technicolor. It describes the interactions at energies near the mass of the lowest-lying bound states of the lightest technifermion…
Tevatron Constraints on Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor
Yumian Su, Gian Franco Bonini, Kenneth Lane
We study the constraints on models of topcolor-assisted technicolor arising from measurements of high- jets and high-mass lepton pairs at the Tevatron collider. Existing data…
Testing CDF's Dijet Excess and Technicolor at the LHC
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
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 $Ï_T…
Two Lectures on Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
These two lectures on technicolor and extended technicolor (ETC) were presented at l'Ecole de GIF at LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France, in September 2001. In Lecture I, the motivation…
Vacuum Alignment in Technicolor Theories-I. The Technifermion Sector
Kenneth Lane, Tonguc Rador, Estia Eichten
We have carried out numerical studies of vacuum alignment in technicolor models of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking. The goal is to understand alignment's implications for…
Technicolor 2000
Kenneth Lane
This review is based on lectures on technicolor and extended technicolor presented at the Frascati Spring School in May 2000. I summarize the motivation and structure of this theor…
The Light Composite Higgs in Strong Extended Technicolor
Kenneth Lane, Lukas Pritchett
This paper extends an earlier one describing the Higgs boson as a light composite scalar in a strong extended technicolor model of electroweak symmetry breaking. The Higgs mass…
Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron and LHC
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane
The Tevatron experiments CDF and DO are close to making definitive statements about the technicolor discovery mode rho_T -> W pi_T for M(rho_T) <~ 230 GeV and M(pi_T) <~ 125 GeV. W…
Non-Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model
Kenneth Lane
The motivations for studying dynamical scenarios of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking are reviewed and the latest ideas, especially topcolor-assisted technicolor, are summar…
Technicolor and the First Muon Collider
Kenneth Lane
The motivations for studying dynamical scenarios of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking are reviewed and the latest ideas, especially topcolor-assisted technicolor, are summar…
Kzero--Anti-Kzero and Bzero--Anti-Bzero Constraints On Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
I propose a resolution of the strong CP problem of quarks based on vacuum alignment in theories of dynamically broken electroweak and flavor symmetries. Mixing in the neutral B and…
Phenomenology of the new light Higgs bosons in Gildener-Weinberg model
Kenneth Lane, Eric Pilon
Gildener-Weinberg (GW) models of electroweak symmetry breaking are especially interesting because the low mass and nearly Standard Model couplings of the Higgs bos…
Deconstructing Dimensional Deconstruction
Kenneth Lane
Dimensional deconstruction (DD) abstracts from higher dimensional models features of related 4--dimensional ones. DD was proposed in Refs.[1,2,3] as a scheme for constructing model…
Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021
Tulika Bose, Antonio Boveia, Caterina Doglioni +318
This is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More gen…
Technicolor Signatures at the High Energy Muon Collider
Kenneth Lane
I discuss high mass signatures of technicolor that would be observable at a very high energy muon collider. Most intriguing is the spectrum of spin-one technihadrons, rho_T, omega_…
Search for Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron
Kenneth Lane
CDF and D0 each have more than 1 inverse femtobarn of data on tape, and their stores are increasing. This should be sufficient to carry out significant searches for low-scale techn…
A New Model of Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
I present a model of topcolor-assisted technicolor that can have topcolor breaking of the desired pattern, hard masses for all quarks and leptons, mixing among the heavy and light…
Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of CDF's Dijet Excess at the LHC
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin +1
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 $Ï_T…
A Light Scalar in Low-Scale Technicolor
Antonio Delgado, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
In addition to the narrow spin-one resonances , and occurring in low-scale technicolor, there will be relatively narrow scalars in the mass range 200 to 600--700…
Lepton Flavor Violation in B Decays?
Sheldon L. Glashow, Diego Guadagnoli, Kenneth Lane
The LHCb Collaboration's measurement of R_K = B(B+ -> K+ mu+ mu-)/B(B+ -> K+ e+e-) lies 2.6 sigma below the Standard Model prediction. Several groups suggest this deficit to result…
Technihadron Production and Decay Rates in the Technicolor Straw Man Model
Kenneth Lane
We present hadron collider production rates for the lightest color-singlet technihadrons in a simple ``straw-man'' model of low-scale technicolor. These rates are presented in a wa…
Technihadron Production and Decay in Low-Scale Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
We discuss the production and decay rates of the lightest color-singlet technihadrons, spin-one rho_T and omega_T and spin-zero pi_T, in a minimal ``straw-man'' model of low-scale…
Color-Singlet Technipions at the Tevatron
Kenneth Lane
I discuss production and detection at the Tevatron $\pbarp$ collider of pairs of light ($\mpi = 100$--$200\,\gev$) color--singlet technipions that are expected in all nonminimal mo…
Charged-Lepton Mixing and Lepton Flavor Violation
Diego Guadagnoli, Kenneth Lane
We present a model for calculating charged-lepton mixing matrices. These matrices are an essential ingredient for predicting lepton flavor-violating rates in the lepton number nonu…
Top-Quark Production and Flavor Physics
Kenneth Lane
Because of the top quark's very large mass, about 175~GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair--production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the…
A Higgs Impostor in Low-Scale Technicolor
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
We propose a "Higgs impostor" model for the 125 GeV boson, , recently discovered at the LHC. It is a technipion, , with expected in this mass reg…
A New Mechanism for Light Composite Higgs Bosons
Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
Repeated symmetry-breaking and restoration phase transitions occur as one traverses the parameter space of interactions competing to align the vacuum. This phenomenon, augmented wi…
Resonant and Non-Resonant Effects in Photon-Technipion Production at Lepton Colliders
Kenneth Lane, Kevin R. Lynch, Stephen Mrenna +1
Lepton collider experiments can search for light technipions in final states made striking by the presence of an energetic photon: $e+e- \to \photon\technipion$. To date, searches…
Electroweak and Flavor Dynamics at Hadron Colliders--I
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane
This is the first of two reports cataloging the principal signatures of electroweak and flavor dynamics at $\pbarp$ and colliders. Here, we discuss some of the signatures of d…
Electroweak and Flavor Dynamics at Hadron Colliders--II
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane
This is the second of two reports cataloging the principal signatures of electroweak and flavor dynamics at $\pbarp$ and colliders. Here, we complete our overview of technicol…
Natural Stabilization of the Higgs Boson's Mass and Alignment
Kenneth Lane, William Shepherd
Current data from the LHC indicate that the 125 GeV Higgs boson, , is either the single Higgs of the Standard Model or, to a good approximation, an "aligned Higgs". We propose t…
Narrow Technihadron Production at the First Muon Collider
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, John Womersley
In modern technicolor models, there exist very narrow spin-zero and spin-one neutral technihadrons---, and ---with masses of a few 100 GeV. The large cou…
A Composite Higgs Model with Minimal Fine-Tuning I.~The Large-N and Weak-technicolor Limit
Kenneth Lane
We suggest a criterion to minimize the amount of fine-tuning in a composite Higgs model. The paradigm of this type of model is the top-condensate model of Bardeen, Hill and Lindner…
Technicolor Signatures---Ieri, Oggi e Domani
Kenneth Lane
We briefly review the basic structure of modern--day technicolor theories. We then discuss the signatures for technicolor as they were in its early days, the searches that have bee…
Technicolor at the Tevatron
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, Adam Martin
We propose that the 3.2 sigma excess at ~150 GeV in the dijet mass spectrum of W + jets reported by CDF is the technipion of low-scale technicolor. Its relatively large cros…
The Collider Phenomenology of Technihadrons in the Technicolor Straw Man Model
Kenneth Lane, Stephen Mrenna
We discuss the phenomenology of the lightest SU(3)_C singlet and non-singlet technihadrons in the Straw Man Model of low-scale technicolor (TCSM). The technihadrons are assumed to…
Top Quarks and Flavor Physics
Kenneth Lane
Because of the top quark's very large mass, about 175~GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair--production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the…
The Diboson Excess: Experimental Situation and Classification of Explanations; A Les Houches Pre-Proceeding
Johann Brehmer, Gustaaf Brooijmans, Giacomo Cacciapaglia +21
We examine the `diboson' excess at TeV seen by the LHC experiments in various channels. We provide a comparison of the excess significances as a function of the mass of th…
The Gildener-Weinberg two-Higgs doublet model at two loops
Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane
The Gildener-Weinberg two-Higgs doublet model (GW-2HDM) provides a naturally light and aligned Higgs boson, . It has been studied in the one-loop approximation of its e…
Anti-B-B Mixing Constrains Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor
Gustavo Burdman, Kenneth Lane, Tonguc Rador
We argue that extended technicolor augmented with topcolor requires that all mixing between the third and the first two quark generations resides in the mixing matrix of left-hande…
Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane
In multiscale models of walking technicolor, relatively light color-singlet technipions are produced in $q \ol q$ annihilation in association with longitudinal and bosons a…
Natural Topcolor--Assisted Technicolor
Kenneth Lane, Estia Eichten
We construct a prototype of topcolor--assisted technicolor in which, although both top and bottom quarks acquire some mass from extended technicolor, strong couplings of tec…
Technicolor
Kenneth Lane
Technicolor, with extended technicolor, is the theory of dynamical electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking at energies far below the Planck scale. To motivate it, I describe the m…