2 TeV Walking Technirho at LHC?

TL;DR

This paper proposes that a 2 TeV technirho resonance from walking technicolor could explain the LHC diboson excess, with the model consistent with current experimental constraints and predicting dominant diboson decays.

Contribution

It introduces a scale-invariant hidden local symmetry model for walking technicolor that explains the 2 TeV diboson excess as technirho resonances.

Findings

Technirho mainly produced via Drell-Yan process

Technirho decays predominantly into dibosons

Model consistent with electroweak precision tests

Abstract

The ATLAS collaboration has recently reported an excess of about 2.5 $\sigma$ global significance at around 2 TeV in the diboson channel with the boson-tagged fat dijets, which may imply a new resonance beyond the standard model. We provide a possible explanation of the excess as the isospin-triplet technivector mesons (technirhos, denoted as $\rho_\Pi^{\pm,3}$) of the walking technicolor in the case of the one-family model as a benchmark. As the effective theory for the walking technicolor at the scales relevant to the LHC experiment, we take a scale-invariant version of the hidden local symmetry model so constructed as to accommodate technipions, technivector mesons, and the technidilaton in such a way that the model respects spontaneously broken chiral and scale symmetries of the underlying walking technicolor. In particular, the technidilaton, a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson of the (approximate) scale symmetry predicted in the walking technicolor, has been shown to be successfully identified with the 125 GeV Higgs. Currently available LHC limits on those technihadrons are used to fix the couplings of technivector mesons to the standard-model fermions and weak gauge bosons. We find that the technirho's are mainly produced through the Drell-Yan process and predominantly decay to the dibosons, which accounts for the currently reported excess at around 2 TeV. The consistency with the electroweak precision test and other possible discovery channels of the 2 TeV technirhos are also addressed.