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SUMMARY:The LHC 2 TeV Diboson Resonances as Composite Vectors
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Lukas Pritchett\n\nPart of the Preliminary Oral Exam.
	\n\nExamining Committee: Kenneth Lane\, Kevin Black\, Liam Fitzpatrick and 
	Claudio Chamon\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC rec
	ently reported excesses in production of pairs \nof weak bosons. These exce
	sses may be associated with resonances 2 TeV invariant mass\, hinting at \n
	new physics in the electroweak symmetry-breaking sector. New particles coup
	ling to the weak bosons could be the first glimpse of new physics that help
	s resolve the current issues. With this in mind\, we interpret the resonanc
	es as vector hadrons of a technicolor theory\, motivated\nby a model where 
	the Higgs boson is a quark / technifermion composite. \n\nIn this talk I wi
	ll motivate the interactions of the technihadrons with the weak bosons\, pr
	esent the expected production rates at the LHC in Runs 1 and 2\, and point 
	out some of the experimental signatures of the model.\n\nMost importantly\,
	 we find that at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV this model predicts production rates of a
	\nfew fb\, somewhat less than observed data from Run 1. Signatures to look 
	for in Run 2 include production rates boosted  by a factor of 5-7\, an abse
	nce of $ZZ$ events\, and bosons that are preferentially longitudinally pola
	rized.
LOCATION:PRB 261\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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