paper

A novel search strategy for right-handed charged gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider

arXiv:2312.08521

Abstract

We explore the potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in detecting a signal originating from the production of a heavy $S U (2)_{R}$ charged gauge boson that then decays into a top-bottom quark pair via the mediation of a right-handed neutrino, $pp \to W_{R} \to N_{R} ℓ \to (ℓ^{'} t b) ℓ$ . Such a channel, that we study in the context of the minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model, contrasts with conventional smoking-gun signatures targeted experimentally and phenomenologically in which only light quarks are involved. We propose a selection strategy aimed at extracting such a top-bottom signal and we estimate the resulting sensitivity of the LHC to the model. Our results demonstrate the potential impact of such a search and we therefore urge the experimental collaborations to carry out a similar analysis in the light of present and future data.

v1: 38 pages, 9 figures and 9 tables. v2: Matches published version in JHEP