Signals for New Spin-1 Resonances in Electroweak Gauge Boson Pair Production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores the LHC's potential to detect new spin-1 resonances linked to electroweak symmetry breaking using a model-independent approach across various decay channels.

Contribution

It introduces a model-independent method to search for new vector bosons in electroweak symmetry breaking scenarios at the LHC.

Findings

LHC can potentially discover or exclude many EWSB models.

Multiple decay channels provide large reach for new resonances.

Analysis is applicable to Higgsless and other EWSB scenarios.

Abstract

The mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) will be directly scrutinized soon at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We analyze the LHC potential to look for new vector bosons associated with the EWSB sector. We present a possible model independent approach to search for these new spin--1 resonances. We show that the analyses of the processes pp --> l^+ l^- Emiss_T, l^\pm j j Emiss_T, l^\pm l^+ l^- Emiss_T, and l^+ l^- j j (with l=e or \mu and j=jet) have a large reach at the LHC and can lead to the discovery or exclusion of many EWSB scenarios such as Higgsless models.