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Flavor Changing Neutral Currents, an Extended Scalar Sector, and the Higgs Production Rate at the LHC

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We study extensions of the standard model with additional colored scalar fields which can couple directly to quarks. Natural suppression of flavor changing neutral currents implies minimal flavor violation, and fixes the scalars to transform as (8,2)_1/2 under the SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1) gauge symmetry. We explore the phenomenology of the standard model with one additional (8,2)_1/2 scalar, and discuss how this extension can modify flavor physics and the Higgs boson production rate at the LHC. Custodial SU(2) symmetry can be implemented for the octet scalars since they transform as a real color representation. Additional weak scale degrees of freedom needed for gauge unification are discussed.

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Octet scalars shaping LHC distributions in 4-jet final states

hep-ph · 2025-11-12 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

A color-octet scalar Θ pair-produced via gluons and decaying to quark pairs can account for the CMS excess in equal-mass dijet pairs at 0.95 TeV with a 65 fb cross section for the real case.

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  • Octet scalars shaping LHC distributions in 4-jet final states hep-ph · 2025-11-12 · unverdicted · none · ref 30 · internal anchor

    A color-octet scalar Θ pair-produced via gluons and decaying to quark pairs can account for the CMS excess in equal-mass dijet pairs at 0.95 TeV with a 65 fb cross section for the real case.