Simple non-Abelian extensions of the standard model gauge group and the diboson excesses at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores simple non-Abelian gauge extensions of the Standard Model to explain 2 TeV diboson excesses at the LHC, analyzing phenomenology and constraints on new W' and Z' bosons.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of two classes of non-Abelian models, G(221) and G(331), and their ability to account for LHC diboson excesses, including phenomenological constraints.

Findings

Leptonic and dijet decay modes strongly constrain model parameters.

Left-Right and Lepton-Phobic models can explain the WZ excess.

Tight bounds guide future model building for diboson anomalies.

Abstract

The ATLAS collaboration reported excesses at around 2 TeV in the di-boson production decaying into hadronic final states. We consider the possibility of explaining the excesses with extra gauge bosons in two simple non-Abelian extensions of the Standard Model. One is the so-called $G(221)$ models with a symmetry structure of $SU(2)_1\otimes SU(2)_2\otimes U(1)_X$ and the other is the $G(331)$ models with an extended symmetry of $SU(3)_C\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$. The $W'$ and $Z'$ bosons emerge after the electroweak symmetry is spontaneously broken. Two patterns of symmetry breaking in the $G(221)$ models are considered in this work: one is $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_2 \otimes U(1)_X \to SU(2)_L\otimes U(1)_Y$, the other is $SU(2)_1\otimes SU(2)_2 \otimes U(1)_Y \to SU(2)_L\otimes U(1)_Y$. The symmetry breaking of the $G(331)$ model is $SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X \to SU(2)_L \otimes U(1)_Y$. We perform a global analysis of $W^\prime$ and $Z^\prime$ phenomenology in ten new physics models, including all the channels of $W^\prime/Z^\prime$ decay. Our study shows that the leptonic mode and the dijet mode of $W^\prime/Z^\prime$ decays impose a very stringent bound on the parameter space in several new physics models. Such tight bounds provide a useful guide for building new physics models to address on the diboson anomalies. We also note that the Left-Right and Lepton-Phobic models can explain the $3.4\sigma$ $WZ$ excess if the $2.6\sigma$ deviation in the $W^+W^-$ pair around 2~TeV were confirmed to be a fluctuation of the SM backgrounds.