Composite Weak Bosons

TL;DR

This paper explores a composite model of weak bosons, leptons, and quarks, proposing a confining gauge interaction that predicts new resonances and excited states observable at the LHC, extending the Standard Model.

Contribution

It introduces a composite framework for weak bosons and predicts new resonances and excited states above 1 TeV, providing testable predictions for collider experiments.

Findings

Mixing of neutral weak boson with photon indicates a confining force below 1 TeV.

Predicted narrow resonances decay into weak bosons and fermion pairs.

Existence of excited leptons above 1 TeV decaying into leptons and weak bosons.

Abstract

The weak bosons, leptons and quarks are considered as composite particles. The interaction of the constituents is a confining gauge interaction. The standard electroweak model is a low energy approximation. The mixing of the neutral weak boson with the photon is a dynamical mechanism, similar to the mixing between the photon and the rho-meson in QCD. This mixing provides information about the energy scale of the confining gauge force. It must be less than 1 TeV. At and above this energy many narrow resonances should exist, which decay into weak bosons and into lepton and quark pairs. Above 1 TeV excited leptons should exist, which decay into leptons under emission of a weak boson or a photon. These new states can be observed with the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN.