Composite vectors in Higgless models at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production and decay of composite heavy vectors in a Higgsless electroweak symmetry breaking model at the LHC, focusing on their signatures in di-lepton and tri-lepton events.

Contribution

It introduces a model of composite heavy vectors based on a strongly coupled symmetry breaking sector and analyzes their production and decay signatures at the LHC.

Findings

Predicted rates for same sign di-lepton events.

Predicted rates for tri-lepton events.

Characterization of heavy vector signatures at the LHC.

Abstract

In the context of a strongly coupled Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, composite triplet of heavy vectors degenerate in mass belonging to the $SU(2)_{L+R}$ adjoint representation may arise from a new strong interaction invariant under the global $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ symmetry, which is spontaneously broken down to $SU(2)_{L+R}$. Assuming that the interactions among these heavy vector states and with the Standard Model gauge bosons are described by a $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R/SU(2)_{L+R}$ Effective Chiral Lagrangian, the heavy vector pair production at the LHC by Vector Boson Fusion and Drell-Yan annihilation is studied in this framework. The expected rates of same sign di-lepton and tri-lepton events from the decay of the composite vectors into Standard Model gauge bosons are computed.