Collider Phenomenology of the Higgsless Models

TL;DR

Tests of the mechanism of partial unitarity restoration in the longitudinal vector boson scattering are concentrated on, which is crucial to the phenomenological success of any Higgsless model and does not depend on the model-building details.

Abstract

We identify and study the signatures of the recently proposed Higgsless models at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We concentrate on tests of the mechanism of partial unitarity restoration in the longitudinal vector boson scattering, which is crucial to the phenomenological success of any Higgsless model and does not depend on the model-building details. We investigate the discovery reach for charged massive vector boson resonances and show that all of the preferred parameter space will be probed with 100 inverse fb of LHC data. Unitarity restoration requires that the masses and couplings of the resonances obey certain sum rules. We discuss the prospects for their experimental verification at the LHC.

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• Figure 1: Diagrams contributing to the $W^\pm Z\rightarrow W^\pm Z$ scattering process: (a), (b) and (c) appear both in the SM and in Higgsless models, (d) and (e) only appear in Higgsless models, while (f) only appears in the SM.