Friday, October 19, 2012

1210.5103 (Chao-Qiang Geng et al.)

Note on 125 GeV Spin-2 particle    [PDF]

Chao-Qiang Geng, Da Huang, Yong Tang, Yue-Liang Wu
A new boson around 125 GeV without specific spin has been observed by both ATLAS and CMS at the LHC. Since its decay into a diphoton excludes the spin-1 case by the Landau-Yang theorem, it leaves 0 or 2 as the possible lowest spin for the new boson. Instead of the well-established spin-0 Higgs-like boson, we take this new boson to be a spin-2 massive Graviton-like particle denoted as $G$, which exists copiously in extra-dimension theories, and concentrate on its phenomenology. In particular, we calculate the three-body decays of $G\toV f\bar{f}'$ with $V$ and $f^{(\prime)}$ the gauge boson and fermions in the standard model (SM) and compare our results with those of the SM Higgs boson. The couplings between $G$ and $V$s are also estimated by fitting the data. A new observable that can distinguish $G$ from the Higgs is proposed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5103

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