Abstract
We study collider phenomenology of a leptophobic Z ′ boson existing in eight scenarios of the E 6 grand unified theory, differing in particle embeddings. We first review the current bound on the Z ′ mass m Z′ based upon the LHC data of pp → \( t\overline{t} \) process at 8 TeV collisions with an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb−1. Most scenarios have a lower bound of about 1 TeV. However, this constraint does not apply to the case where m Z′ < 2m t, and other methods need to be employed for this lower mass regime. Using existing UA2 constraints and dijet data at the LHC, we find that only one of the eight scenarios is excluded at 95% confidence level. No bound can be obtained from Wjj and Zjj measurements. We propose to use the photon associated production of the Z ′ boson that subsequently decays into a pair of bottom quarks, pp → Z ′γ → \( b\overline{b}\gamma \), at the LHC to explore the constraints in the lower mass regime. We compute the expected signal significance as a function of m Z′ using detailed simulations of signal and irreducible background events. We find constraints for two more scenarios using the 8-TeV data and taking appropriate kinematical cuts. We also show the discovery reach for each scenario at the 14-TeV LHC machine.
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Chiang, CW., Nomura, T. & Yagyu, K. Phenomenology of E 6-inspired leptophobic Z ′ boson at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 106 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)106
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- Phenomenological Models
- Hadronic Colliders