Four-Lepton Resonance at the Large Hadron Collider

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel four-lepton decay channel for a Z' boson, a hypothetical particle predicted by new physics theories, and discusses its potential discovery at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a new search channel for Z' bosons decaying to four leptons, expanding current collider search strategies.

Findings

Potential for discovery at the LHC

Motivated by supersymmetry models

Novel decay channel identified

Abstract

A spin-1 weakly interacting vector boson, Z', is predicted by many new physics theories. Searches at colliders for such a Z' resonance typically focus on lepton-antilepton or top-antitop events. Here we present a novel channel with a Z' resonance that decays to 4 leptons, but not to 2 leptons, and discuss its possible discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. This baryonic gauge boson is well motivated in a supersymmetry framework.