Searching for doubly-charged vector bileptons in the Golden Channel at the LHC

TL;DR

This study evaluates the LHC's ability to detect doubly-charged vector bileptons through specific four-lepton signatures, assessing discovery potential across various masses and energies.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of LHC sensitivity to doubly-charged vector bileptons in the golden channel with different mass scenarios.

Findings

Potential to discover bileptons up to 1 TeV at the LHC

Determined minimal luminosities for discovery at 7 TeV and 14 TeV

Identified optimal conditions for observing these exotic particles

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the LHC potential for discovering doubly-charged vector bileptons considering the measurable process $p,p$ $\rightarrow$ $e^{\mp}e^{\mp}\mu^{\pm}\mu^{\pm} X$. We perform the study using four different bilepton masses and three different exotics quark masses. Minimal LHC integrated luminosities needed for discovering and for setting limits on bilepton masses are obtained for both 7 TeV and 14 TeV center-of-mass energies. We find that these spectacular signatures can be observed at the LHC in the next years up to a bilepton mass of order of 1 TeV.