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arxiv: 1209.5913 · v1 · pith:CSSL6WAVnew · submitted 2012-09-26 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Probing Near-Conformal Technicolor through Weak Boson Scattering

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keywords bosontechnicolornear-conformalhiggsprobingscatteringspin-oneweak
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The recently observed boson at 125 GeV could be a light composite scalar from near-conformal technicolor dynamics: a technicolor Higgs. If this is the case, unitarization of longitudinal weak boson scattering amplitudes, which is due to exchanges of the Higgs and spin-one vector technimesons, is expected to occur in a strong regime, with saturation of the unitarity bounds. This implies that $pp \to V V jj$ processes, where $V$ is either a $W$ or a $Z$ boson, are enhanced, relative to the standard model. We show that this allows probing near-conformal technicolor for couplings and masses of the spin-one resonances which are not directly accessible for direct Drell-Yan production.

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