Title
Vector-bilepton contribution to four lepton production at the LHC
Date Issued
19 August 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal do ABC
Abstract
Some extensions of the standard model predict the existence of particles having two units of leptonic charge, known as bileptons. One such model is based on the SU(3)c×SU(3)L×U(1)X symmetry group (3-3-1 model, for short). Our search uses the minimal version of the 3-3-1 model, which has exotic charges for the quarks and new gauge bosons. This model predicts the existence of bileptons as vector particles having one (V±) and two (Y±±) units of electric charge. We study the signatures for the production of four leptons by considering the contribution of a pair of bileptons in pp collisions for three energy and luminosity regimes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We present invariant mass and transverse momentum distributions, the total cross section, and we determine the expected number of events for each bilepton type. Finally, we analyze the LHC potential for discovering single and double charged vector bileptons at 95% C.L. We conclude that the LHC collider can show a clear signature for the existence of bileptons as a signal of new physics. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Volume
88
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84884834654
Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
ISSN of the container
15502368
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