For example, the primary decay of the higgs boson is to b quark pairs, even though the diphoton channel is easier to see. Faculty members and graduate students were there when the higgs boson was discovered in 2012 and they are there four years later on the brink of another major discovery in particle physics. Asymmetric dark matter models and the lhc diphoton excess. However, the existence of massive resonances decaying to higgs boson. Electroweak vacuum stability and diphoton excess at 750 gev. This small excess could be the first hint of a new massive particle. The higgs boson cosmogenesis library of akbar ra in.
The e6 inspired isosinglet quark and the higgs boson. Hcal calorimeter contributions and gflash simulations, pixel cooling and controls cms. Precision measurements of the higgs boson triumph of the standard model sm. Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from decays of. The analysis of the initial data collected at tev in 2015 and data from run 1 showed evidence for an excess in the highmass diphoton search near 750 gev arxiv. Gang li and colleagues from peking university in china propose a particle similar to the higgs boson, which was itself discovered via a 125 gev peak in the.
Search for a new resonance decaying to a w or z boson and. Thats the question one hears in all the bars and on all the street corners and on every twitter feed and in the whispering of the wind. At around 750 gev, scientists observed only a few dozen photon pairs, and a handful more than predicted. I feel fairly convinced that this is possible but i still want you to offer me 10to1 odds if you want to become a standard model advocate. In addition, a 750 gev narrowwidth higgs boson sample is produced. The 750 gev diphoton excess in particle physics was an anomaly in data collected at the large hadron collider lhc in 2015, which could have been an indication of a new particle or resonance. Unfortunately, there was not enough data in 2015 to get a clear answer. Credible evidence of a beyond the standard model 750 gev. Combined search for electroweak production of charginos.
The 750 gev signal was a diphoton excess, meaning two photons with an energy of around 750 gev total were produced more frequently than expected. Discussion in thuban cosmology in quantum relativity started by admin, dec 27, 2014. Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of higgs bosons. The higgs boson plays a particularly important role in the sm 6, as it is responsible for the spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking of su3c. In several events, the two photons seem to come from the decay of a particle having a mass around 750 gev, that is, 750 times heavier than a proton or 6 times the mass of a higgs boson. Bump in large hadron collider data has physicists electrified. Precision tools and models to narrow in on the 750 gev diphoton.
Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from. Can i sell a proprietary software with an lgpl library bundled along with it. The authors of three of the four papers show how the bump could be caused by a boson with a mass of 750 gev the integer spin of a boson being needed to generate two spin 1 photons. It was built by the european organization for nuclear research cern between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. A search for a new resonance decaying to a w or z boson and a higgs boson in the final states is performed using 20. The measurements saw photons with a combined energy of 750 gev, about six times heavier than the higgs boson, something that has not been predicted by the current theory describing particle. More data were necessary to confirm or reject an excess. Credible evidence of a beyond the standard model 750 gev mass boson the resonance signal and its significance the atlas experiment at the large hadron collider lhc has seen a signal at 3. The story is actually much more complicated than one can believe, with a still unclear sequence of changes in the software indicating that others, possibly a foreign government, took advantage of the nsa backdoor to. Sadly the book finds itself overtaken by recent events the book ends with a discussion of the 2015 announcement of the 750 gev diphoton excess found at the lhc. New fermions, exoquarks and exoleptons, get tevscale masses through yukawa couplings with. Both cms and atlas found small excesses when selecting events containing two photons.
Higgslike boson at 750 gev and genesis of baryonsjournal. From the 750 gev diphoton resonance to multilepton. The anomaly was absent in data collected in 2016, suggesting that the diphoton excess was a statistical fluctuation. University of california claim to have found particle to. Here, we propose that the diphoton excess at 750 gev reported by atlas and cms is due to the decay of an exohiggs scalar. An electron edm comparable to the present bound can be achieved through a mixing between the 750 gev resonance and the standard model higgs boson, if the mixing angle itself for an approximately pseudoscalar resonance, or the mixing angle times the cpviolating angle for an approximately scalar resonance, is of o103. Singlets in composite higgs models in light of the lhc 750.
Atlas and cms presented today a summary of the first lhc results obtained from proton collisions with tev center. And, pairs of b quarks with 371 gev of momentum plus 4 gev or so of rest mass would be hard to miss. The triplet vacuum expectation value is taken to be gevsuch that only the decays are. Last year, two teams working at the lhc reported that they had found protontoproton collisions that had led to the creation of more photon pairs with energies of approximately 750. Searches for new physics at the compact muon solenoid. Three papers are centered around some new 750 gev boson.
Despite the superficial similarities of a spin0 750 gev particle to a higgs boson, the resonance is very unhiggs like. The observation of a 125 gev higgs boson at the lhc run1 1, 2 is a great triumph of the standard model sm. Since the simplest extensions of the standard model cannot accommodate the observation, many alternatives have been considered to. If it is digital and run by software, the software may contain a virus or a prank. Chris murphy senior data scientist wayfair linkedin.
Gang li and colleagues from peking university in china propose a particle similar to the higgs boson, which was itself discovered via a 125 gev. The lhc had a slow restart last year following two years of major improvements to raise its energy reach. Possible, but i dont see the motivation to assume some weird mass coincidence here. The ku physicist said his concept depends upon a sequential cascade decay of a heavier particle into photons that can fake the resonance signal at 750 gev.
Request pdf interpreting the 750 gev digamma excess. Theorizing about the lhcs 750 gev bump physics world. The large hadron collider lhc is the worlds largest and highestenergy particle collider and the largest machine in the world. Precision tools and models to narrow in on the 750 gev. He also at the end of the book talks a little about the discoveries that he hopes will show the way to whatever lies beyond the standard model. Assuming a light higgs boson of mass 120 gev, four mass values for the d quark have been taken as examples. Search for a w boson in the topquark decay channel anne fabricant advisor. With a higher collision energy of tev, lhc run 2 is. A statistical combination of several searches for the electroweak production of charginos and neutralinos is presented. Large hadron collider set to reveal the secrets of the. Supersymmetry signals of supercritical string cosmology at the large hadron collider. Purdue physics professor leads research efforts at cern. On the other hand, since no strong evidences of sparticles are found, the susybreaking.
Vector leptoquarks and the 750 gev diphoton resonance at the lhc. New results on the higgs boson and the building blocks of. We interpret the 750gev diphoton excess recently found in the tev lhc data as a singlet scalar in an extra dimensional model, where one extra dimension is introduced. Chances are high that the standard model will be killed in 2016. We specialize in it training and certification preparation, developing netsim network simulator, practice exams and courseware to help you achieve success.
The 2higgsdoublet model with soft cpviolation confronting. Maverick branches, a proof that everetts theory is totally wrong. This is followed by a softwarebased trigger with a sustained average accepted. The discovery of the higgs boson has been a crucial chapter in our understanding of the electroweak breaking sector. Search for heavy higgs bosons decaying to a top quark pair in. So is it possible that this bump at around 750 gev is this lepton i have been waiting for, or can it be ruled out. The 750 gev diphoton excess in particle physics was an anomaly in data collected at the large. Would you like us to contact you regarding 750 feeder management relay. Bump in large hadron collider data has physicists electrified date. If susy is indeed the new physics beyond the sm, it should also explain the recently reported 750 gev diphoton excess. More interestingly, he tells me that the 750 gev bump data seemed to be a similar signal to the early higgstogammagamma data the lhc physicists saw in 2011, when they were still chasing the particle. More specifically, the lhc saw unexpected, excess pairs of photons, each carrying 750 gigaelectronvolts gev of energy, as the. Upgrade path to accelerate leptons to 750 gev in the tevatron tunnel for use in the proposed mucool, neutrino factory and muon collider experiments. Spray, diphoton excess at 750 gev from a radion in the bulkhiggs scenario, 1512.
A search is presented for pairs of light pseudoscalar bosons, in the mass range from 4 to 15 gev, produced from decays of the 125 gev higgs boson. Department of energys office of scientific and technical information. Diphoton bump at lhc leads to generation of hundreds of. If you just cant get enough of the new 750 gev particle. Physicist offers leading theory about mysterious large. Their independent analyses both revealed a mild excess of events above background around a mass of 750 gev, for which one of the simple explanations was a new spin0 or spin2 particle decaying into two photons. A great success of lhc run 1 is the discovery of the 125 gev higgs boson in the standard model sm. My group is working on a measurement of the spin correlations of top quarks and by looking at the invariant mass spectrum of the top antitop quark pair we can isolate the mass region of 750 gev where cms and atlas currently see hints for a new particle. The measurements saw photons with a combined energy of 750 gev, making the potential particle six times heavier than the higgs boson. Using generic software tools in this context can help address. Models of compositeness can successfully address the origin of the higgs boson, as a pseudonambugoldstone boson pngb of a spontaneously broken global symmetry, and f. The hints for a new resonance at 750 gev from atlas and cms have triggered a significant amount of attention.
In this thesis, we present several searches for beyond the standard model physics in protonproton collisions recorded by the compact muon solenoid experiment at centerofmass energy of 8 and \tev. Signal samples are generated with pole masses between 300 and gev for the higgs boson and between 500 and gev for the bulk rs graviton, in 100 gev steps. The 750 gev diphoton excess at the lhc and dark matter constraints. New results on the higgs boson and the building blocks of matter presented at ichep. The searches were performed using two benchmark signal models, the lightest kaluzaklein 3 spin2 graviton excitation g of a randallsundrum rs 4 model or a spin0 resonance x such as those. Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into samesign. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 gev with the cms experiment at the lhc. In much the same way, more data were obtained and the higgs bump went on to be an official discovery. The story of the 750 gev bump gives an interesting example of how new data can completely shift the focus of the scientific community. The 750 gev resonances would decay into a top antitop quark pair. Tobioka, a higgslike boson that couples to new kinds of fermions g. If this particular effect is confirmed, it would reveal the presence of a new particle with a mass of 750 gev, six times the mass of the higgs boson.
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