Signals of two universal extra dimensions at the LHC

G. Burdman (1) , O.J.P. Éboli (1) , D. Spehler (2)

1 INSTITUTO DE FISICA - Instituto de Fisica
2 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

Extensions of the standard model with universal extra dimensions are interesting both as phenomenological templates as well as model-building fertile ground. For instance, they are one of the prototypes for theories exhibiting compressed spectra, leading to difficult searches at the LHC since the decay products of new states are soft and immersed in a large standard model background. Here we study the phenomenology at the LHC of theories with two universal extra dimensions. We obtain the current bound by using the production of second level excitations of electroweak gauge bosons decaying to a pair of leptons and study the reach of the LHC Run II in this channel. We also introduce a new channel originating in higher dimensional operators and resulting in the single production of a second level quark excitation. Its subsequent decay into a hard jet and lepton pair resonance would allow the identification of a more modelspecific process, unlike the more generic vector resonance signal. We show that the sensitivity of this channel to the compactification scale is very similar to the one obtained using the vector resonance.

Mots clés: hierarchy; collider; particle; boson; model; mass; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics

Domaines: Physique [physics]

G. Burdman, O.J.P. Éboli, D. Spehler. Signals of two universal extra dimensions at the LHC. Physical Review D, 2016, 94, pp.095004. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095004⟩. ⟨hal-01417223⟩