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Critical constraints on chiral hierarchies.
Critical dynamics constrains models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking in which the scale of high-energy physics is far above 1 TeV. A big hierarchy requires the high-energy theory to have a second-order chiral phase transition, near which the theory is described by a low-energy effective Lagrangian with composite Higgs scalars. As scalar theories with more than one 4 coupling can have a Coleman-Weinberg instability and a first-order transition, such dynamical EWSB models cannot always support a large hierarchy. If the large-Nc Nambu Jona-Lasinio model is a good approximation to the top-condensate and strong extended technicolor models, they will not produce acceptable EWSB. © 1993 The American Physical Society
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Nonoblique effects in the Zbb-bar vertex from extended technicolor dynamics.
Extended technicolor theories generate potentially large corrections to the Zbb» vertex which can be observed in current experiments at the CERN e+e- collider LEP. © 1992 The American Physical Society
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The Top Triangle Moose
We introduce a deconstructed model that incorporates both Higgsless and
top-color mechanisms. The model alleviates the typical tension in Higgsless
models between obtaining the correct top quark mass and keeping delta-rho
small. It does so by singling out the top quark mass generation as arising from
a Yukawa coupling to an effective top-Higgs which develops a small vacuum
expectation value, while electroweak symmetry breaking results largely from a
Higgsless mechanism. As a result, the heavy partners of the SM fermions can be
light enough to be seen at the LHC
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Separating dijet resonances using the color discriminant variable
Color-singlet and color-octet vector bosons predicted in theories beyond the Standard Model have the potential to be discovered as dijet resonances at the LHC. A color-singlet resonance that has leptophobic couplings needs further investigation to be distinguished from a color-octet one. In previous work, we introduced a method for discriminating between the two kinds of resonances when their couplings are flavor-universal, using measurements of the dijet resonance mass, total decay width and production cross-section. Here, we describe two extensions of that work. First, we broaden the method to the case where the vector resonances have flavor non-universal couplings, by incorporating measurements of the heavy-flavor decays of the resonance. Second, we apply the method to separating vector bosons from color-octet scalars and excited quarks
Measurements of neutral vector resonance in Higgsless models at the LHC
In Higgsless models, new vector resonances appear to restore the unitarity of
the W_L W_L scattering amplitude without the Higgs boson. In the ideal
delocalized three site Higgsless model, one of large prodcution cross section
of the neutral vector resonance (Z') at the Large Hadron Collider is the
W-associated production, pp \to Z'W \to WWW. Although the dileptonic decay
channnel, l\nu l'\nu 'jj, is experimentally clean to search for the Z' signals,
it is difficult to reconstruct the Z' invariant mass due to the two neutrinos
in the final state. We study collider signatures of Z' using the
M_{T2}-Assisted On-Shell (MAOS) reconstruction of the missing neutrino momenta.
We show the prospect of the Z' mass determination in the channel, l\nu l'\nu
'jj, at the Large Hadron Collider.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables; v2: references added, minor
corrections, version published in JHE
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Topcolor in the LHC Era
Ongoing LHC searches for the standard model Higgs Boson in WW or ZZ decay
modes strongly constrain the top-Higgs state predicted in many models with new
dynamics that preferentially affects top quarks. Such a state couples strongly
to top-quarks, and is therefore produced through gluon fusion at a rate that
can be greatly enhanced relative to the rate for the standard model Higgs
boson. As we discuss in this talk, a top-Higgs state with mass less than 300
GeV is excluded at 95% CL if the associated top-pion has a mass of 150 GeV, and
the constraint is even stronger if the mass of the top-pion state exceeds the
top-quark mass or if the top-pion decay constant is a substantial fraction of
the weak scale. These results have significant implications for theories with
strong top dynamics, such as topcolor-assisted technicolor, top-seesaw models,
and certain Higgsless models
Distinguishing flavor nonuniversal colorons from Z' bosons at the LHC
Electrically neutral massive color-singlet and color-octet vector bosons, which are often predicted in theories beyond the Standard Model, have the potential to be discovered as dijet resonances at the LHC. A color-singlet resonance that has leptophobic couplings needs further investigation to be distinguished from a color-octet one. In previous work, we introduced a method for discriminating between the two kinds of resonances when their couplings are flavor universal, using measurements of the dijet resonance mass, total decay width, and production cross section. Here, we describe an extension of that method to cover a more general scenario, in which the vector resonances could have flavor-nonuniversal couplings; essentially, we incorporate measurements of the heavy-flavor decays of the resonance into the method. We present our analysis in a model-independent manner for a dijet resonance with mass 2.5-6.0 TeV at the LHC with s=14TeV and integrated luminosities of 30, 100, 300, and 1000fb-1 and show that the measurements of the heavy-flavor decays should allow conclusive identification of the vector boson. Note that our method is generally applicable even for a Z' boson with non-Standard invisible decays. We include an Appendix of results for various resonance couplings and masses to illustrate how well each observable must be measured to distinguish colorons from Z's
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Patterns of custodial isospin violation from a composite top
In this paper we consider the effects of top-quark compositeness on the electroweak parameters T^ and S^ and the ZbLb̄L coupling. We do so by using an effective field theory analysis to identify several promising patterns of mixing between standard-model-like and vector fermions, and then analyzing simple extensions of the standard model that realize those patterns. These models illustrate four ways in which an extended O(4) symmetry, which controls the size of radiative corrections to the observables discussed, may be broken. These models may also be viewed as highly deconstructed versions of five-dimensional gauge theories dual to various strongly interacting composite Higgs theories. We comment on how our results relate to extra-dimensional models previously considered, and we demonstrate that one pattern of O(4) breaking is phenomenologically favored. © 2011 American Physical Society
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