Extra Z's and W's in heterotic-string derived models

Faraggi, Alon E ORCID: 0000-0001-7123-6414 and Guzzi, Marco (2015) Extra Z's and W's in heterotic-string derived models. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 75 (11). pp. 1-12.

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Abstract

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations recently recorded possible excess in the di-boson production at the diboson invariant mass at around 2 TeV. Such an excess may be produced if there exist additional Z and/or W at that scale. We survey the extra Z's and W's that may arise from semirealistic heterotic-string vacua in the free fermionic formulation in the seven distinct cases: U(1)Z ∈ SO(10); family universal U(1)Z ∈/ SO(10); non-universal U(1)Z; hidden sector U(1) symmetries and kinetic mixing; left–right symmetric models; Pati–Salam models; leptophobic and custodial symmetries. Each case has a distinct signature associated with the extra symmetry breaking scale. In one of the cases we explore the discovery potential at the LHC using resonant leptoproduction. The existence of an extra vector boson with the reported properties will significantly constrain the space of allowed string vacua.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	25 pages, 2 figures. Standard LaTeX. References added. Published version
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Vector boson, Hide sector, Proton decay, Flavour change neutral current, Standard model state
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2017 09:14
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:14
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3763-4
Open Access URL:	http://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3763-4
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3006184