Changing patterns in electroweak precision with new color-charged states: Oblique corrections and the $W$ boson mass

Abstract

The recent measurement by the CDF Collaboration of the $W$ boson mass is in significant tension with the Standard Model expectation, showing a discrepancy of seven standard deviations. A larger value of $m_W$ affects the global electroweak fit, particularly the best-fit values of the Peskin-Takeuchi parameters $S$, $T$ (and perhaps $U$) that measure oblique corrections from new physics. To meet this challenge, we propose some simple models capable of generating non-negative $S$ and $T$, the latter of which faces the greatest upward pressure from the CDF measurement in scenarios with $U=0$. Our models feature weak multiplets of scalars charged under $\mathrm{SU}(3{)}_{\text{c}}\times \mathrm{U}(1{)}_Y$, which cannot attain nonzero vacuum expectation values but nevertheless produce e.g. $T\ne 0$ given some other mechanism to split the electrically charged and neutral scalars. We compute the oblique corrections in these models and identify ample parameter space supporting the CDF value of $m_W$.

11 pages, 4 figures. Updated to resemble Phys. Rev. D Version of Record

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