Lane, Kenneth D.Pritchett, Lukas2020-04-072020-04-072016-02-10Kenneth Lane, Lukas Pritchett. 2016. "Heavy vector partners of the light composite Higgs." PHYSICS LETTERS B, Volume 753, pp. 211 - 214 (4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.0030370-26931873-2445https://hdl.handle.net/2144/40027If the Higgs boson 𝘏 (125) is a composite due to new strong interactions at high energy, it has spin-one partners, 𝘱𝘏 and 𝛼𝘏, analogous to the ρ and 𝛼1 mesons of QCD. These bosons are heavy, their mass determined by the strong interaction scale. The strongly interacting particles light enough for 𝘱𝘏 and 𝛼𝘏 to decay to are the longitudinal weak bosons 𝘝𝘓 ＝ 𝘞𝘓, 𝘡𝘓 and the Higgs boson H. These decay signatures are consistent with resonant diboson excesses recently reported near 2 TeV by ATLAS and CMS. We calculate σ × 𝘉𝘙 (𝘱𝘏 ⟶ 𝘝𝘝) ＝ few fb and σ × 𝘉𝘙 (𝛼𝘏 ⟶ 𝘝𝘏) ＝ 0.5-1 fb at √𝑠 ＝ 8 TeV, increasing by a factor of 5–7 at 13TeV. Other tests of the hypothesis of the strong-interaction nature of the diboson resonances are suggested.p. 211 - 214en-USThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Science & technologyPhysical sciencesAstronomy & astrophysicsPhysics, nuclearPhysics, particles & fieldsPhysicsTechnicolor theoriesElectroweak parametersRadiative correctionsDynamical modelATLAS detectorBosonSuperconductivityAnalogySectorNuclear & particles physicsAtomic, molecular, nuclear, particle and plasma physicsAstronomical and space sciencesMathematical physicsArticle10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.0030000-0001-8281-5438 (Lane, Kenneth)116936