Probing the Green-Schwarz Mechanism at the Large Hadron Collider

Kumar, Jason; Rajaraman, Arvind; Wells, James D.

Probing the Green-Schwarz Mechanism at the Large Hadron Collider

Authors

Kumar, Jason

Rajaraman, Arvind

Wells, James D.

Description

We investigate the phenomenology of new abelian gauge bosons, which we denote as $X$ bosons, that suffer a mixed anomaly with the Standard Model, but are made self-consistent by the Green-Schwarz mechanism. A distinguishing aspect of the resulting effective theory is the decay of $X$ bosons into Standard Model gauge bosons, $X\to ZZ, WW, γZ$. We compute the production cross-section of the $X$ boson from vector boson fusion at the Large Hadron Collider. We study the $pp\to X\to ZZ\to 4l$ signal, and analyze the prospects of discovery. We argue that such a discovery could indirectly probe high energies, even up to the string scale.
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