Composite Vectors at the Large Hadron Collider

TL;DR

This paper explores the production and detection of composite vector particles at the LHC, comparing effective field theory models with gauge models, and analyzing their potential signals in multi-lepton events.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of composite vectors in effective Lagrangian and gauge models, focusing on their production mechanisms and phenomenological signatures at the LHC.

Findings

Predicted rates of multi-lepton events from composite vector decays.

Comparison of amplitude behaviors in different theoretical frameworks.

Insights into the asymptotic behavior of production amplitudes.

Abstract

An unspecified strong dynamics may give rise to composite vectors sufficiently light that their interactions, among themselves or with the electroweak gauge bosons, be approximately described by an effective Lagrangian invariant under $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R/ SU(2)_{L+R}$. We study the production at the LHC of two such states by vector boson fusion or by the Drell--Yan process in this general framework and we compare it with the case of gauge vectors from a $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times SU(2)^N$ gauge model spontaneously broken to the diagonal SU(2) subgroup by a generic $\sigma$-model. Special attention is payed to the asymptotic behaviour of the different amplitudes in both cases. The expected rates of multi-lepton events from the decay of the composite vectors are also given. A thorough phenomenological analysis and the evaluation of the backgrounds to such signals, aiming at assessing the visibility of composite-vector pairs at the LHC, is instead deferred to future work.