Physics Letters B 775 (2017) 297–302
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Distinct signals of the gauge-Higgs unification in e
+
e
−
collider
experiments
Shuichiro Funatsu
a
, Hisaki Hatanaka
b
, Yutaka Hosotani
b,∗
, Yuta Orikasa
c
a
KEK Theory Center, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
b
Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
c
Czech Technical University, Prague 12800, Czech Republic
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
20 July 2017
Received
in revised form 6 October 2017
Accepted
29 October 2017
Available
online 10 November 2017
Editor:
J. Hisano
Effects of Kaluza–Klein excited neutral vector bosons (Z
bosons) in the gauge-Higgs unification on
e
+
e
−
→
¯
qq,
+
−
cross sections are studied, particularly in future e
+
e
−
collider experiments with
polarized beams. Significant deviations in the energy and polarization dependence in σ (μ
+
μ
−
), the
lepton forward–backward asymmetry, R
b
(μ) ≡ σ (
¯
bb)/σ (μ
+
μ
−
) and the left–right asymmetry from the
standard model are predicted.
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.
With the establishment of the standard model (SM) by the dis-
covery
of the Higgs boson, searching for physics beyond the SM
and understanding the electroweak phase transition have become
a few of the main topics in particle physics. Not only large hadron
colliders, but also e
+
e
−
colliders play an important role for this
purpose. In this letter we study distinct signals of the gauge-Higgs
unification (GHU) [1–10] in the future e
+
e
−
collider experiments.
In
GHU the Higgs boson is a part of the extra-dimensional com-
ponent
of the gauge potentials, appearing as a fluctuation mode of
an Aharonov–Bohm (AB) phase θ
H
in the fifth dimension. As a con-
sequence
the Higgs couplings HWW, HZZ and Yukawa couplings
deviate from those in the SM in a universal manner [11].They are
suppressed by a common factor cos θ
H
;
g
GHU
HWW
g
SM
HWW
,
g
GHU
HZZ
g
SM
HZZ
,
y
GHU
¯
ff
y
SM
¯
ff
cos θ
H
. (1)
For θ
H
=O(0.1), probable values in the model, the deviation of the
couplings amounts to 1 − cos θ
H
= O(0.005), and is small. At the
ILC at
√
s = 250 GeV, the ZZH coupling can be measured in the
0.6% accuracy with 2ab
−1
data [12]. Another prominent feature
of the model is that the first Kaluza–Klein (KK) excited states of
the neutral gauge bosons, Z
, have large couplings to right-handed
components of quarks and leptons, viable signals of which can be
seen in hadron collider experiments [8,10].
The main purpose of this letter is to check the effect of such
Z
bosons using lepton collider experiments in the past and fu-
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: hosotani@phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp (Y. Hosotani).
ture. We first examine the GHU model with precision measure-
ments
in LEP1 experiment at
√
s = M
Z
, and LEP2 experiments for
130 GeV ≤
√
s ≤ 207 GeV. Then we predict several signals of Z
bosons in GHU in e
+
e
−
collider experiments designed for future
with collision energy
√
s ≥ 250 GeV with polarized electron and
positron beams.
The GHU model we consider is the SO(5) × U (1)
X
gauge the-
ory
in the Randall–Sundrum warped space with metric ds
2
=
e
−2k|y|
η
μν
dx
μ
dx
ν
+ dy
2
(0 ≤|y| ≤+L) where k is the Ad S
5
cur-
vature.
The warp factor z
L
≡ e
kL
is large ( 1). SO(5) symmetry
is broken to SO(4) SU(2)
L
× SU(2)
R
by the orbifold boundary
conditions at y = 0 and L. The SO(5)/SO(4) part of the gauge
fields, A
ˆ
a
y
(a = 1 ∼ 4), plays the role of the Higgs field in the SM.
SU(2)
R
× U(1)
X
symmetry is spontaneously broken to U (1)
Y
by
a brane-localized scalar field at y =0. Finally the SU(2)
L
× U (1)
Y
symmetry is dynamically broken to U (1)
em
by the Hosotani mech-
anism.
5D
fields are expanded in KK series. In particular, there are four
KK towers of the neutral vector bosons, γ
(m)
, Z
(m)
, Z
(n)
R
and A
ˆ
4(n)
(m = 0, 1, 2, ···, n = 1, 2, 3 ···) where γ
(0)
and Z
(0)
correspond to
the photon and Z boson, respectively. These fields except for A
ˆ
4
couple to the SM fields and can be observed as neutral Z
vector
bosons.
In
addition to the quark–lepton multiplets in the vector rep-
resentation
of SO(5), N
F
dark fermions in the spinor representa-
tion
are introduced. As a consequence the electroweak symmetry
breaking is achieved at the one loop level. The Higgs boson, which
is massless at the tree level, acquires a finite mass m
H
, inde-
pendent
of the cutoff scale. The gauge hierarchy problem is thus
solved [2].
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