Status of exclusion limits of the KK-parity non-conserving resonance production with updated 13 TeV LHC

TL;DR

This paper updates exclusion limits on KK-parity non-conserving resonances in a 5D model using 13 TeV LHC data, focusing on specific decay channels of first KK-excitations of gauge bosons.

Contribution

It provides new bounds on model parameters based on recent LHC results, considering non-conservation of KK parity and decay channels of KK excitations.

Findings

Exclusion limits have shifted towards lower parameter values at 95% C.L.

Updated limits are based on non-observation of specific decay channels.

Analysis uses latest 13 TeV LHC data for resonance searches.

Abstract

Unequal strengths of boundary localised terms lead to non-conservation of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) parity in the 4 + 1 Universal Extra Dimensional model. Consequently the first excited KK-partners of Standard Model particles are not stable by any symmetry. In this article using the latest 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) results, we revisit the resonant production of first KK-excitations of the neutral gauge bosons ($G^1$, $B^1\ \textrm{and} \ W_3^1$) and their subsequent decay. {\it Specifically $G^1$ (first KK-excitation of gluon) decays to $t\bar{t}$ pair and $B^1/W_3^1$ (first KK-excitation of electroweak gauge bosons) decay to $\ell^{+}\ell^{-} (\ell \equiv e, \mu)$ pair}. We find the exclusion limits of model parameters obtained at 95\% C.L. from the non-observation of these channels have been shifted towards the lower side of the parameter space compared to our previous analysis at 8 TeV.