Abstract
We argue that theories of the strong electroweak symmetry breaking sector necessarily contain new spin 0 states at the TeV scale in the and channels, even if the third generation quarks are not composite at the TeV scale. These states couple sufficiently strongly to third generation quarks to have significant production at LHC via or . The existence of narrow resonances in QCD suggests that the strong electroweak breaking sector contains narrow resonances that decay to or , with potentially significant branching fractions to 3 or more longitudinal and bosons. These may give new “smoking gun” signals of strong electroweak symmetry breaking.
- Received 30 April 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.101801
©2009 American Physical Society
Synopsis
Strongly broken symmetry
Published 31 August 2009
New particles decaying to the heaviest elementary particles might reveal the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking.
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