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750 GeV Diphoton Signal from One-Family Walking Technipion

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Shinya Matsuzaki, Koichi Yamawaki

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 17 Dec 2015 · 38 references

Pith's verdict: A quick, competent application of the authors' own walking-technicolor machinery to the December 2015 diphoton bump — the arithmetic is right and the rate isn't tuned, but the 'N_C=3 is favored' conclusion rests on an LO cross section sitting at 80% of the 8 TeV limit.

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CitationKoichi Yamawaki, Shinya Matsuzaki. "750 GeV Diphoton Signal from One-Family Walking Technipion." arXiv:1512.05564 (2015). https://pith.science/paper/PO3PVTVN
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The paper argues that the 750 GeV diphoton excess reported by ATLAS and CMS can be explained by a single predicted composite pseudoscalar of the one-family walking technicolor model, whose couplings to gluons and photons are fixed by the QD

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In December 2015 both ATLAS and CMS saw a modest bump near 750 GeV in the diphoton mass spectrum at 13 TeV. This paper asks whether that bump is the signature of a particle the one-family walking technicolor model already predicts: an isospin-singlet, color-singlet pseudoscalar technipion $P^0$, built from techniquarks and technileptons held together by a slowly running gauge force. The appeal is that nothing is tuned. The $P^0$ couplings to gluons, photons, $Z$ and $Z$ pairs are fixed by the chiral anomaly through the same Wess-Zumino-Witten construction that governs $P^0$ decays, so once the mass and the number of technicolors $N_C$ are chosen, production and decay rates follow with no free parameters. Setting $m_{P^0}=750$ GeV and $N_C=3$, the authors find a diphoton rate of about 7.5 fb at 13 TeV, inside the 5-10 fb range read off the data, with a total width near 1.2 GeV and a digluon branching fraction of 99.8 percent. If the identification holds, one model would account for the 125 GeV Higgs-like scalar, the 2 TeV diboson excess and the 750 GeV diphoton excess at once.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is the Wess-Zumino-Witten anomaly term of the chiral Lagrangian for the one-family model, which fixes the $P^0$ couplings to $g g$, $%5Cgamma%5Cgamma$, $Z%5Cgamma$ and $ZZ$ in terms of the technipion decay constant and the number of technicolors, with no adjustable strength. The central object is the singlet pseudoscalar $P^0 %5Csim (1/(4%5Csqrt{3}))(%5Cbar{Q} i%5Cgamma_5 Q - 3%5Cbar{L} i%5Cgamma_5 L)$, the one technipion whose couplings are not suppressed by the techniquark-technilepton cancellation that kills the $P^0 WW$ vertex. Because all partial widths carry the same $N_C^2$ factor, the branching ratios are $N_C$-independent and the only remaining dial is the mass.

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Core claim

The claim is that the iso- and color-singlet technipion $P^0$ of the one-family walking technicolor model, taken at a mass of 750 GeV, reproduces the observed diphoton rate. The model has $N_F=8$ technifermions (three techniquarks carrying color and a technilepton doublet), so the chiral symmetry is $SU(8)_L imes SU(8)_R$ broken to $SU(8)_V$, giving 63 pseudoscalars of which three are eaten by $W$ and $Z$. The remaining 60 technipions get mass from extended technicolor and Standard Model gauge interactions, lifted to the TeV scale by the large anomalous dimension of the walking dynamics. The singlet combination $P^0$ couples to gauge bosons only through the non-Abelian anomaly, with the decay constant fixed to $F_%5Cpi = v_{m EW}/%5Csqrt{N_D} = 123$ GeV. Every partial width scales as $N_C^2$, so the branching ratios are independent of $N_C$: at 750 GeV the state is 99.8 percent digluon, $9.7 imes 10^{-2}$ percent diphoton, $5.3 imes 10^{-2}$ percent $Z%5Cgamma$ and $7.3 imes 10^{-3}$ percent $ZZ$, with $P^0 o WW$ forbidden by cancellation between techniquark and technilepton loops. With CTEQ6L1 parton densities and the narrow-width approximation, gluon fusion at 13 TeV gives about $7.7 imes 10^3$ fb in digluons and 7.5 fb in diphotons for $N_C=3$ (13 fb for $N_C=4$). Checking against 8 TeV limits, the $N_C=4$ diphoton rate of 2.9 fb sits above the quoted bound of 2.0 fb, while $N_C=3$ at 1.6 fb survives, so the authors conclude that $N_C=3$ is the favored case. They note as an open caveat that extended-technicolor Yukawa couplings, especially to the top, could interfere with the anomaly amplitude and shift the branching fractions.

Load-bearing premise

The $P^0$ mass is put in by hand at 750 GeV, while the paper itself says extended technicolor and Standard Model gauge interactions push technipion masses to the TeV scale, so nothing here explains why this particular state should sit at 750 GeV rather than higher.

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  • Run-II data should show correlated excesses near 750 GeV in dijets, $Z%5Cgamma$ and $ZZ$, in the ratios implied by the branching fractions: roughly 7.7 pb in digluons, 4.1 fb in $Z%5Cgamma$ and 0.56 fb in $ZZ$ at 13 TeV for $N_C=3$.
  • The $N_C=4$ version of the model is disfavored, since its 8 TeV diphoton rate of 2.9 fb exceeds the quoted 95 percent C.L. bound of 2.0 fb, leaving $N_C=3$ as the consistent choice.
  • The same model keeps its other predictions intact: a 125 GeV technidilaton matching the Higgs couplings and a technirho near 2 TeV matching the ATLAS diboson excess.
  • The resonance should be narrow, with a total width of order 1 GeV, consistent with the interpretation of the diphoton bump as a single particle rather than a broad effect.

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  • Because 99.8 percent of the decays go to two gluons, this state is a dijet resonance first and a diphoton resonance second; any anomaly-coupled explanation of a 750 GeV photon bump inherits a much larger jet signal that is the sharper place to look.
  • The anomaly fixes the relative rates across channels, so the ratios $Z%5Cgamma : %5Cgamma%5Cgamma : ZZ %5Capprox 0.55 : 1 : 0.075$ are a stronger test than the diphoton rate alone, since a common overall normalization cannot rescue a mismatch in the pattern.
  • The mass is the one quantity the paper does not derive; a lattice or extended-technicolor calculation of the technipion mass splitting that lands near 750 GeV would turn this from an accommodation into a prediction, and one that lands near 1 TeV would end it.
  • If the singlet exists, the QCD-colored technipions should lie nearby in mass and decay into dijets or top pairs, giving an independent handle that does not rely on the photon channel at all.
Original abstract

The ATLAS and CMS groups have recently reported an excess at around 750 GeV with the local significance by about 3 sigma in the diphoton channel at the 13 TeV LHC. We give a possible explanation for the excess by a composite pseudo scalar $(P^0)$ predicted in the one-family model of walking technicolor.

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The ATLAS and CMS groups have recently reported an excess at around 750 GeV with the local significance by about 3 sigma in the diphoton channel at the 13 TeV LHC. We give a possible explanation for the excess by a composite pseudo scalar $(P^0)$ predicted in the one-family model of walking technicolor.

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  • The models we consider here are qualitatively different from other proposals in the literature [ref] because our scenario provides, at the same time, a composite pNGB Higgs and top partners (thus addressing the hierarchy problem), as well as minimality (only the WZW interactions are needed).

    Singlets in Composite Higgs Models in light of the LHC di-photon searches · Introduction · 0.97

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  • The coupling form can unambiguously be fixed by the Wess-Zumino-Witten construction [ref] in terms of the chiral Lagrangian just like the case of QCD pions [ref] : [equation] where things have been written in terms of differential forms on the Minkowski-space manifold $M^4$, and $e, s_W, g_s$ and $F_π$ respectively denote the electromagnetic coupling, weak mixing angle $(s_W ≡sinθ_W, c_W^2≡1- s_W^2)$, the QCD gauge coupling, and the technipion decay constant fixed by the electroweak scale $v_EW=246$ GeV as $F_π= v_EW/√(N_D)$, with $N_D=N_F/2=4$ for the one-family model.

    Walking techni-pions at LHC · Introduction · 0.87

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