Heavy photophilic scalar at the LHC from a varying electromagnetic coupling. (English) Zbl 1361.81171
Summary: We investigate the phenomenology of a heavy scalar \(\phi\) of the type involved in Bekenstein’s framework for varying electromagnetic coupling theories, with the difference that the scalar in our model has a large mass. The model has only two free parameters, the mass \(M_\phi\) of the scalar and the scale {\(\Lambda\)} of new physics. The scalar is dominantly produced through photon-photon fusion at the LHC and leads to a diphoton final state. It can also be produced by quark-antiquark fusion in association with a photon or a fermion pair. Its dominating decay is to diphotons, but it also has a large three-body branching to a fermion pair and a photon, which can provide an interesting search channel with a dilepton-photon resonance. We derive exclusion limits on the \(M_\phi - \Lambda\) plane from the latest 13 TeV LHC diphoton resonance search data. For a benchmark mass of \(M_\phi \sim 1\) TeV, we find a lower limit on {\(\Lambda\)} of 18 TeV. We discuss the more complex possibility of varying couplings in the full electroweak theory and comment on the possibility that the new physics is related to extra dimensions or string theory.
MSC:
| 81V25 | Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory |
| 81T13 | Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory |
| 81V22 | Unified quantum theories |
| 81V10 | Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics |
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