Technicolor Walks at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the Large Hadron Collider's ability to detect signatures of Walking Technicolor models, focusing on heavy vector production mechanisms and composite Higgs phenomenology, to aid future discovery efforts.

Contribution

It compares Drell-Yan and Vector Boson Fusion production modes for heavy vectors and assesses their detectability at the LHC within Walking Technicolor frameworks.

Findings

Heavy vectors are most detectable via Drell-Yan processes.

Composite Higgs signatures are also analyzed.

Walking Technicolor footprints could be observable at the LHC.

Abstract

We analyze the potential of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to observe signatures of phenomenologically viable Walking Technicolor models. We study and compare the Drell-Yan (DY) and Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) mechanisms for the production of composite heavy vectors. We find that the heavy vectors are most easily produced and detected via the DY processes. The composite Higgs phenomenology is also studied. If Technicolor walks at the LHC its footprints will be visible and our analysis will help uncovering them.