Dillon, Barry M and Sanz, Veronica (2017) Kaluza-Klein gravitons at LHC2. Physical Review D, 96 (3). 035008 1-10. ISSN 2470-0010

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Abstract

In this work we study constraints from new searches for heavy particles at the LHC on the allowed masses and couplings of a KK Graviton in a holographic composite Higgs model. Keeping new electroweak states heavy such that electroweak precision tests are satisfied, we control the mass of the lightest KK graviton using a brane kinetic term. With this we study KK graviton masses from 0.5-3 TeV. In our analysis we also employ Little Randall-Sundrum (RS) Models, characterised by a lower UV scale in the 5D model which in turn implies modified couplings to massless bulk fields. Viewing this scenario as a strongly coupled 4D theory with a composite Higgs boson, the KK graviton is interpreted as a composite spin-2 state and the varying UV scale corresponds to a varying intermediate scale between the cutoff of the low energy effective theory and the Planck scale. We find that KK gravitons with masses in the range 0.5-3 TeV are compatible with current collider constraints, where the most promising channels for detecting these states are the di-photon and ZZ channels. A detection is more likely in the little RS models, in which the dual gauge theory has a larger number of colours than in traditional RS models.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Theoretical Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Alice Jackson
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2019 14:29
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2019 14:31
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/81114

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