Testing the Technicolor Interpretation of CDF's Dijet Excess at the LHC

Abstract

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 ${\rho }_T\to W{\pi }_T$, we study its observability in LHC detectors with 1--20 inverse femtobarns of data. We describe interesting new kinematic tests that can provide independent confirmation of this LSTC hypothesis. We find 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 ${\rho }_T\to \ell \nu jj$. Observation of the isospin-related channel ${\rho }_T^{pm}\to Z{\pi }_T^{pm}\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}jj$ and of ${\rho }_T^{pm}\to WZ$ in the three lepton plus neutrino and dilepton plus dijet 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 in 2012. The $WZ\to 3\ell \nu$ 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 $\sin \chi$.

24 pages, 24 figures

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