Vectorlike Confinement at the LHC
arXiv:0906.0577 · doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2010)018
Abstract
We argue for the plausibility of a broad class of vectorlike confining gauge theories at the TeV scale which interact with the Standard Model predominantly via gauge interactions. These theories have a rich phenomenology at the LHC if confinement occurs at the TeV scale, while ensuring negligible impact on precision electroweak and flavor observables. Spin-1 bound states can be resonantly produced via their mixing with Standard Model gauge bosons. The resonances promptly decay to pseudo-Goldstone bosons, some of which promptly decay to a pair of Standard Model gauge bosons, while others are charged and stable on collider time scales. The diverse set of final states with little background include multiple photons and leptons, missing energy, massive stable charged particles and the possibility of highly displaced vertices in dilepton, leptoquark or diquark decays. Among others, a novel experimental signature of resonance reconstruction out of massive stable charged particles is highlighted. Some of the long-lived states also constitute Dark Matter candidates.
33 pages, 6 figures. v4: expanded discussion of Z_2 symmetry for stability, one reference added
References in corpus (13)
- Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
- Echoes of a Hidden Valley at Hadron Colliders
- Phenomenology of Hidden Valleys at Hadron Colliders
- Low-Scale Technicolor at the Tevatron and LHC
- Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV $\bar{p}p}$ Collisions
- Search for charged massive long-lived particles with the D0 detector
- Colored Resonances at the Tevatron: Phenomenology and Discovery Potential in Multijets
- Strong Conformal Dynamics at the LHC and on the Lattice
- Search for third generation scalar leptoquarks decaying into tau b
- Search for long-lived particles decaying into electron or photon pairs with the D0 detector
- Search for a scalar or vector particle decaying into Zgamma in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
- Search for third-generation leptoquarks in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
- Supersymmetry in Slow Motion
Cited by in corpus (101)
- What is the gamma gamma resonance at 750 GeV?
- Stealth Supersymmetry
- Review of strongly-coupled composite dark matter models and lattice simulations
- Quirky Composite Dark Matter
- Semi-visible Jets: Dark Matter Undercover at the LHC
- Search for production of vector-like quark pairs and of four top quarks in the lepton-plus-jets final state in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Footprints of New Strong Dynamics via Anomaly and the 750 GeV Diphoton
- Universal behavior in the scattering of heavy, weakly interacting dark matter on nuclear targets
- The High Quality QCD Axion and the LHC
- The Scale of Dark QCD
- Fusing Vectors into Scalars at High Energy Lepton Colliders
- A 750 GeV Dark Pion: Cousin of a Dark G-parity-odd WIMP
- A hidden confining world on the 750 GeV diphoton excess
- Weakly Interacting Stable Pions
- A Stealth Supersymmetry Sampler
- Dynamical generation of the weak and Dark Matter scales from strong interactions
- Search for heavy long-lived charged particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
- Heavy octets and Tevatron signals with three or four b jets
- Non-Abelian Dark Forces and the Relic Densities of Dark Glueballs
- Standard Model anatomy of WIMP dark matter direct detection I: weak-scale matching
- Flavourful Production at Hadron Colliders
- Stealth Dark Matter: Dark scalar baryons through the Higgs portal
- Observational prospects for gravitational waves from hidden or dark chiral phase transitions
- A search for pair-produced resonances in four-jet final states at =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
- decay anomalies and dark matter from vectorlike confinement
- Analysis of events with -jets and a pair of leptons of the same charge in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Dynamical Dark Matter from Strongly-Coupled Dark Sectors
- Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy WIMP Annihilation
- Thermal Squeezeout of Dark Matter
- Shedding Light on Diphoton Resonances
- Sgluon Pair Production to Next-to-Leading Order
- Cornering sgluons with four-top-quark events
- Searching for sgluons in multitop events at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV
- Toward a coherent solution of diphoton and flavor anomalies
- UV complete composite Higgs models
- Gluequark Dark Matter
- The LHC Phenomenology of Vectorlike Confinement
- Dark Mesons at the LHC
- Flavor Universal Resonances and Warped Gravity
- Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter
- Quirks at the Tevatron and Beyond
- Hadronically decaying color-adjoint scalars at the LHC
- New physics of strong interaction and Dark Universe
- Automated next-to-leading order predictions for new physics at the LHC: the case of colored scalar pair production
- Top-philic heavy resonances in four-top final states and their EFT interpretation
- Search for four-top-quark production in the single-lepton and opposite-sign dilepton final states in pp collisions at = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Hadronic and hadron-like physics of Dark Matter
- The Half-composite Two Higgs Doublet Model and the Relaxion
- Composite Octet Searches with Jet Substructure
- Shining Light on Polarizable Dark Particles
- Jet Substructure by Accident
- The Last Gasp of Dark Matter Effective Theory
- Chiral Quirkonium Decays
- A Composite Model for the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess
- Weak-triplet, color-octet scalars and the CDF dijet excess
- Probing top-philic sgluons with LHC Run I data
- Repurposing lattice QCD results for composite phenomenology
- Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model
- Topological Pions
- Composite Dark Matter from Strongly-Interacting Chiral Dynamics
- Lattice Gauge Theory for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
- Phenomenology of flavorful composite vector bosons in light of anomalies
- Composite scalar Dark Matter from vector-like confinement
- Multi-Photon Signals from Composite Models at LHC
- Cosmological Production of Dark Nuclei
- Searching for Colorons at the Large Hadron Collider
- Theta in new QCD-like sectors
- Diphotons, New Vacuum Angles, and Strong CP
- A 750 GeV graviton from holographic composite dark sectors
- Searching for high speed long-lived charged massive particles at the LHC
- Effective Theories of Dark Mesons with Custodial Symmetry
- Toptet
- Can the diphoton enhancement at 750 GeV be due to a neutral technipion?
- A UV Complete Compositeness Scenario: LHC Constraints Meet The Lattice
- Hidden Pion Varieties in Composite Models for Diphoton Resonances
- Diphotons from an Electroweak Triplet-Singlet
- An almost elementary Higgs: Theory and Practice
- The Radiation Valley and Exotic Resonances in Production at the LHC
- Phases of N=1 supersymmetric chiral gauge theories
- Composite Dark Matter with Forbidden Annihilation
- Stealth QCD-like Strong Interactions and the t-tbar Asymmetry
- An analysis of a minimal vectorlike extension of the Standard Model
- LHC Signals for KK Graviton from an Extended Warped Extra Dimension
- Composite Dark Matter and a horizontal symmetry
- LHC Implications of the WIMP Miracle and Grand Unification
- General Resonance Mediation
- Same-sign W pair production in composite Higgs models
- A Tale of Two-U(1) Axion Models
- Unification and New Particles at the LHC
- Jet-associated resonance spectroscopy
- Hexapod Coloron at the LHC
- Constraints from Triple Gauge Couplings on Vectorlike Leptons
- Models of hypercolor based on symplectic gauge group with three heavy vectorlike hyperquarks
- Testing merging of Dark Exotic Stars from Gravitational Waves in the Multi-messenger approach
- Constraining Spin-One Color-Octet Resonances Using CDF and ATLAS Data
- Stopping Dark Mesons in Their Tracks with Long-Lived Particle and Resonant Signatures
- Quarkonium in a thermal BIon
- Hyper Stealth Dark Matter and Long-Lived Particles
- New Physics Searches at Kaon and Hyperon Factories
- Integer solutions to the anomaly equations for a class of chiral gauge theories
- Non-perturbative Origin of Electroweak Scale via Higgs-portal: Dyson-Schwinger in Conformally Invariant Scalar Sector