Heavy photophilic scalar at the LHC from a varying electromagnetic coupling

Enberg, Rikard (author): Uppsala universitet,Högenergifysik,Theoretical high energy physics

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Elsevier BV, 2017
2017
English.
In: Nuclear Physics B. - : Elsevier BV. - 0550-3213 .- 1873-1562. ; 919, s. 569-582

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Abstract Subject headings

We investigate the phenomenology of a heavy scalar ϕ of the type involved in Bekenstein's framework for varying electromagnetic coupling theories, with the difference that the scalar in our model has a large mass. The model has only two free parameters, the mass Mϕ of the scalar and the scale Λ of new physics. The scalar is dominantly produced through photon-photon fusion at the LHC and leads to a diphoton final state. It can also be produced by quark-antiquark fusion in association with a photon or a fermion pair. Its dominating decay is to diphotons, but it also has a large three-body branching to a fermion pair and a photon, which can provide an interesting search channel with a dilepton-photon resonance. We derive exclusion limits on the Mϕ−Λplane from the latest 13 TeV LHC diphoton resonance search data. For a benchmark mass of Mϕ∼1 TeV, we find a lower limit on Λ of 18 TeV. We discuss the more complex possibility of varying couplings in the full electroweak theory and comment on the possibility that the new physics is related to extra dimensions or string theory.

By the author/editor: Danielsson, Ulf; Enberg, Rikard; Ingelman, Gunnar; Mandal, Tanumoy

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