Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders
Abstract
We consider examples of “hidden-valley” models, in which a new confining gauge group is added to the standard model. Such models often arise in string constructions, and elsewhere. The resulting (electrically-neutral) bound states can have low masses and long lifetimes, and could be observed at the LHC and Tevatron. Production multiplicities are often large. Final states with heavy flavor are common; lepton pairs, displaced vertices and/or missing energy are possible. Accounting for LEP constraints, we find LHC production cross-sections typically in the 1-100 fb range, though they can be larger. It is possible the Higgs boson could be discovered at the Tevatron through rare decays to the new particles.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.055
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0604261
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhLB..651..374S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 5 figures (v2: minor improvements, one added reference, no substantial changes)