Probing near-conformal technicolor through weak boson scattering

D. Buarque Franzosi and R. Foadi
Phys. Rev. D 88, 015013 – Published 10 July 2013

Abstract

The recently observed boson at 125 GeV could be a light composite scalar from near-conformal technicolor dynamics: a technicolor Higgs. If this is the case, the unitarization of longitudinal weak boson scattering amplitudes, which is due to exchanges of the Higgs and spin-one vector technimesons, is expected to occur in a strong regime, with saturation of the unitarity bounds. This implies that ppVVjj processes, where V is either a W or a Z boson, are enhanced, relative to the standard model. We show that this allows probing near-conformal technicolor for couplings and masses of the spin-one resonances which are not directly accessible for direct Drell-Yan production.

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  • Received 11 November 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.015013

© 2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

D. Buarque Franzosi* and R. Foadi

  • Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) Chemin du Cyclotron 2, Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • *diogo.buarque@uclouvain.be
  • roshan.foadi@uclouvain.be

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Vol. 88, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2013

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