{
  "id": "0906.0577",
  "version": "v4",
  "published": "2009-06-02T20:00:34.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-09-07T19:47:31.000Z",
  "title": "Vectorlike Confinement at the LHC",
  "authors": [
    "Can Kilic",
    "Takemichi Okui",
    "Raman Sundrum"
  ],
  "comment": "33 pages, 6 figures. v4: expanded discussion of Z_2 symmetry for stability, one reference added",
  "journal": "JHEP 1002:018,2010",
  "doi": "10.1007/JHEP02(2010)018",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "We argue for the plausibility of a broad class of vectorlike confining gauge theories at the TeV scale which interact with the Standard Model predominantly via gauge interactions. These theories have a rich phenomenology at the LHC if confinement occurs at the TeV scale, while ensuring negligible impact on precision electroweak and flavor observables. Spin-1 bound states can be resonantly produced via their mixing with Standard Model gauge bosons. The resonances promptly decay to pseudo-Goldstone bosons, some of which promptly decay to a pair of Standard Model gauge bosons, while others are charged and stable on collider time scales. The diverse set of final states with little background include multiple photons and leptons, missing energy, massive stable charged particles and the possibility of highly displaced vertices in dilepton, leptoquark or diquark decays. Among others, a novel experimental signature of resonance reconstruction out of massive stable charged particles is highlighted. Some of the long-lived states also constitute Dark Matter candidates.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v4",
      "updated": "2010-09-07T19:47:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "standard model gauge bosons",
      "vectorlike confinement",
      "massive stable charged particles",
      "tev scale",
      "constitute dark matter candidates"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Springer",
      "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 2010,
      "pages": 18
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 33,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 822128,
      "adsabs": "2010JHEP...02..018K"
    }
  }
}