Flavorful $Z^\prime$ signatures at LHC and ILC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the signatures of a flavor-dependent Z'-boson at the LHC and ILC, highlighting how its production and decay can reveal new physics beyond the Standard Model through distinctive collider signatures.

Contribution

The study introduces a simple model with flavor-dependent Z'-boson couplings and analyzes its collider signatures at LHC and ILC, emphasizing flavor-dependent effects.

Findings

Z'-boson with ~1 TeV mass can be produced at LHC via Drell-Yan processes.

Dilepton decay modes provide clean signatures for Z'-boson detection.

Angular distributions and asymmetries at ILC show flavor-dependent deviations from SM predictions.

Abstract

There are lots of new physics models which predict an extra neutral gauge boson, referred as Z'-boson. In a certain class of these new physics models, the Z'-boson has flavor-dependent couplings with the fermions in the Standard Model (SM). Based on a simple model in which couplings of the SM fermions in the third generation with the Z'-boson are different from those of the corresponding fermions in the first two generations, we study the signatures of Z'-boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC). We show that at the LHC, the Z'-boson with mass around 1 TeV can be produced through the Drell-Yan processes and its dilepton decay modes provide us clean signatures not only for the resonant production of Z'-boson but also for flavor-dependences of the production cross sections. We also study fermion pair productions at the ILC involving the virtual Z'-boson exchange. Even though the center-of-energy of the ILC is much lower than a Z'-boson mass, the angular distributions and the forward-backward asymmetries of fermion pair productions show not only sizable deviations from the SM predictions but also significant flavor-dependences.