Technicolor at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper proposes that an observed excess in W+jets events at the Tevatron is due to technicolor particles, specifically technipions and technirho, and discusses experimental strategies to confirm this hypothesis.

Contribution

It introduces the technicolor interpretation of the Tevatron excess and suggests experimental searches to validate this new physics scenario.

Findings

Identification of the excess as technipion production

Prediction of a narrow Wjj resonance from technirho decay

Guidelines for future collider searches

Abstract

We propose that the 3.2 sigma excess at ~150 GeV in the dijet mass spectrum of W + jets reported by CDF is the technipion $\pi_T$ of low-scale technicolor. Its relatively large cross section is due to production of a narrow $Wjj$ resonance, the technirho, which decays to W + $\pi_T$. We discuss ways to enhance and strengthen the technicolor hypothesis and suggest companion searches at the Tevatron and LHC.