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Collider signals of the Mirror Twin Higgs boson through the hypercharge portal

Christopher B. VerhaarenCan KilicSaereh NajjariSaereh NajjariZackaria Chacko

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PhysicsHyperchargeGauge bosonParticle physicsPhotonLarge Hadron ColliderHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical scienceshep-phlaw.inventionStandard ModelHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)lawHiggs bosonHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentColliderBoson

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We consider the collider signals arising from kinetic mixing between the hypercharge gauge boson of the Standard Model and its twin counterpart in the Mirror Twin Higgs model, in the framework in which the twin photon is massive. Through the mixing, the Standard Model fermions acquire charges under the mirror photon and the mirror Z boson. We determine the current experimental bounds on this scenario, and show that the mixing can be large enough to discover both the twin photon and the twin Z at the LHC, or at a future 100 TeV hadron collider, with dilepton resonances being a particularly conspicuous signal. We show that, in simple models, measuring the masses of both the mirror photon and mirror Z, along with the corresponding event rates in the dilepton channel, overdetermines the system, and can be used to test these theories.

10.1103/physrevd.100.035037https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.035037