LHC di-dijet excesses as signals of fourth-generation tetraquarks

TL;DR

This paper proposes that LHC di-dijet excesses are signals of fourth-generation tetraquarks, modeled as bound states of heavy b' quarks, explaining observed resonances around 2 TeV and 8 TeV.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of LHC excesses as signals of fourth-generation tetraquarks formed by b' quarks, connecting experimental anomalies to a new bound state spectrum.

Findings

Bound state spectrum of b' quark pairs matches observed resonances.

Resonant and non-resonant production mechanisms explain excesses at 2 TeV and 8 TeV.

Framework can accommodate multiple excesses with effective theories containing color-octet scalars and vectors.

Abstract

We postulate that the excesses of di-dijet events observed at the LHC are attributed to the production of four fourth-generation quarks $b'$ with a mass $m_{b'}\approx 2$ TeV at few-TeV scales. The di-dijet signals around the four-jet invariant mass $m_{4j}\approx 8$ TeV arise from a resonant $b'b'\bar b'\bar b'$ tetraquark production, where the dijet resonances of masses about 2 TeV correspond to $b'\bar b'$ first excited states (color-octet scalars with the principal quantum number $n=2$) in a Yukawa potential created by Higgs boson exchanges. Those around $m_{4j}\approx 3.6$ TeV originate from a non-resonant $b'b'\bar b'\bar b'$ production, where the dijet resonances of masses 0.95 TeV correspond to $b'\bar b'$ ground states (color-octet vectors with $n=1$). It is shown that a $b'\bar b'$ system with $m_{b'}\approx 2$ TeV in the Yukawa potential does generate the aforementioned bound state spectrum. We then illustrate that the observed excesses can be accommodated in our setup by translating the fourth-generation model to the effective theories containing color-octet scalars and vectors available in the literature. The di-dijet events at $m_{4j}= 6.6$ TeV and 5.8 TeV with dijet masses about 2 TeV can also be interpreted in the same framework. Simply speaking, our scenario can be viewed as a TeV-scale version of the search for a fully charmed tetraquark via the four-muon channels $X(6900)\to (c\bar c)(c\bar c)\to 4\mu$ at a GeV scale.