I review possible signals at hadron colliders of bileptons, namely doubly charged vectors or scalars with lepton number L=±2, as predicted by a 331 model, based on a SU(3)c×SU(3)L×U(1)X symmetry. In particular, I account for a version of the 331 model wherein the embedding of the hypercharge is obtained with the addition of three exotic quarks and vector bileptons. Furthermore, a sextet of SU(3)L, necessary to provide masses to leptons, yields an extra scalar sector, including a doubly charged Higgs, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe discuss the possibility that light new physics in the top-quark sample at the LHC can be found by investigating with greater care well-known kinematic distributions, such as the invariant mass m_{bℓ} of the b-jet and the charged lepton in fully leptonic tt[over ¯] events. We demonstrate that new physics can be probed in the rising part of the already measured m_{bℓ} distribution. To this end, we analyze a concrete supersymmetric scenario with a light right-handed top-squark, chargino and neutralino.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis review summarizes the results of the activities which have taken place in 2014 within the Standard Model Working Group of the "What Next" Workshop organized by INFN, Italy. We present a framework, general questions, and some indications of possible answers on the main issue for Standard Model physics in the LHC era and in view of possible future accelerators.
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