Leptophobic Z' in Heterotic-String Derived Models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the theoretical conditions under which a leptophobic Z' boson can arise in heterotic-string derived models, motivated by experimental hints of such particles in collider data.

Contribution

It identifies specific conditions and model classes in heterotic-string theories that can produce a leptophobic U(1) symmetry, expanding the understanding of possible Z' bosons.

Findings

Leptophobic U(1) can originate from combinations of B-L and horizontal symmetries.

Left-right symmetric heterotic-string models can admit leptophobic U(1).

Enhanced color groups can augment the leptophobic U(1) in certain models.

Abstract

The CDF collaboration's recent observation of an excess of events in the Wjj channel may be attributed to a new Abelian vector boson with suppressed couplings to leptons. While D0 finds no evidence of an excess, the CDF data provide an opportunity to revisit an old result on leptophobic Z' in heterotic-string derived models. We re-examine the conditions for the existence of a leptophobic U(1) symmetry, which arises from a combination of the U(1)_{B-L} symmetry and the horizontal flavour symmetries, to form a universal U(1) symmetry. While the conditions for the existence of a leptophobic combination are not generic, we show that the left-right symmetric free fermionic heterotic-string models also admit a leptophobic combination. In some cases the leptophobic U(1) is augmented by the enhancement of the colour group, along the lines of models proposed by Foot and Hernandez.