Techni-dilaton signatures at LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential discovery signatures of the techni-dilaton at the LHC, focusing on its production, decay modes, and distinguishability from the Standard Model Higgs within walking technicolor models.

Contribution

It develops a nonlinear realization method to calculate techni-dilaton couplings and evaluates its LHC signatures, highlighting distinctive features from the SM Higgs in specific technicolor models.

Findings

TD signatures differ significantly from SM Higgs.

In the one-doublet model, TD signals are too suppressed for detection.

In the one-family model, a distinctive gamma gamma signature is predicted around 600 GeV.

Abstract

We explore discovery signatures of techni-dilaton (TD) at LHC. The TD was predicted long ago as a composite pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) associated with the spontaneous breaking of the approximate scale symmetry in the walking technicolor (WTC). Being pNGB, whose mass arises from the explicit scale-symmetry breaking due to the dynamical mass generation, the TD should have a mass MTD lighter than other techni-hadrons, say MTD \simeq 600GeV for the typical WTC model, which is well in the discovery range of the ongoing LHC experiment. We develop a spurion method of nonlinear realization to calculate the TD couplings to the standard model (SM) particles and explicitly evaluate the TD LHC production cross sections at sqrt{s}=7TeV times the branching ratios in terms of MTD as an input parameter for 200GeV<MTD<1TeV in the typical WTC models: one-doublet model (1DM) and one-family model (1FM). It turns out that the TD signatures are quite different from those of the SM Higgs. We compare the TD->WW/ZZ signature with the recent ATLAS and CMS bounds and find that in the case of 1DM the signature is consistent over the whole mass range due to the large suppression of TD couplings, and by the same token the signal is too tiny for the TD to be visible through this channel at LHC. As for the 1FM, on the other hand, a severe constraint is given on MTD to exclude the TD with MTD<600GeV, which, however, would imply an emergence of somewhat dramatic excess as the TD signature at MTD>600GeV in the near future. We further find a characteristic signature coming from the gamma gamma mode in the 1FM. In sharp contrast to the SM Higgs case, it provides highly enhanced cross section~0.10--1.0fb at around MTD \simeq 600GeV, which is large enough to be discovered during the first few year's run at LHC.