LHC signals for KK graviton from an extended warped extra dimension

Kaustubh Agashe (Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA) ; Majid Ekhterachian (Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA) ; Doojin Kim (Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA) ; Deepak Sathyan (Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA)

We analyze signals at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from production and decay of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons in the context of “extended” warped extra-dimensional models, where the standard model (SM) Higgs and fermion fields are restricted to be in-between the usual ultraviolet/Planck brane and a ∼ O(10) TeV (new, “intermediate”) brane, whereas the SM gauge fields (and gravity) propagate further down to the ∼ O(TeV) infrared brane. Such a framework suppresses flavor violation stemming from KK particle effects, while keeping the KK gauge bosons and gravitons accessible to the LHC. We find that the signals from KK graviton are significantly different than in the standard warped model. This is because the usually dominant decay modes of KK gravitons into top quark, Higgs and longitudinal W/Z particles are suppressed by the above spatial separation between these two sets of particles, thus other decay channels are allowed to shine themselves. In particular, we focus on two novel decay channels of the KK graviton. The first one is the decay into a pair of radions, each of which decays (dominantly) into a pair of SM gluons, resulting in a resonant 4-jet final state consisting of two pairs of dijet resonance. On the other hand, if the radion is heavier and/or KK gluon is lighter, then the KK graviton mostly decays into a KK gluon and a SM gluon. The resulting KK gluon has a significant decay branching fraction into radion and SM gluon, thereby generating (again) a 4-jet signature, but with a different underlying event topology, i.e., featuring now three different resonances. We demonstrate that the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) has sensitivity to KK graviton of (up to) ∼ 4 TeV in both channels, in the specific model with only gluon field (and gravity) propagating in the extended bulk, whereas it is unlikely to have sensitivity in the standard dijet resonance search channel from KK graviton decay into two gluons.

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Published on:
20 November 2020
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2020 (2020)
Issue 11
Pages 1-38
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)109
arXiv:
2008.06480
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The Author(s)
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CC-BY-4.0

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