New W-prime signals at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the phenomenology of $W^{'}$ bosons in composite Higgs and warped extra-dimensional models, focusing on fermionic resonance effects and promising discovery channels at the 14 TeV LHC.

Contribution

It identifies new promising decay modes of $W^{'}$ into heavy fermions, especially vector-like top partners, and performs detailed analysis of these channels for future LHC searches.

Findings

$W^{'}$ decay into heavy fermions is promising for discovery.

Significant potential to extend exclusion bounds with current data.

Channels like $W^{'} o T_{5/3} T_{2/3}$ are especially promising.

Abstract

We study the $W^{'}$ phenomenology in composite Higgs/ warped extra dimensional models focusing on the effect of fermionic resonances at $\sim$1 TeV. After deriving the existing bounds from the current LHC-8 analyses, we highlight the most promising signatures for $W^{'}$ discovery at the 14 TeV LHC. We find in particular very promising the study of $W^{'}$ decay modes into vector-like top partners, specifically the decay into a doublet of custodian heavy fermions, $T_{5/3} T_{2/3}$, and the decay into a heavy fermion plus a Standard Model quark. We perform a detailed parton level analysis of the channel $W^{'}\to T_{5/3} T_{2/3}$ in the same-sign dilepton final state, finding that it is a very promising signature to test the region at high $W^{'}$ mass, $m_{W^{'}}\gtrsim 2$ TeV, and of the $W^{'}\to Tb$ mode, that is one of the best channels to test the intermediate $W^{'}$ mass region and that, already with the LHC-8 data, could extend the present exclusion bounds.