Quirks at the Tevatron and Beyond

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2011-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/1106.2569v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, 6 figures

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We consider the physics and collider phenomenology of quirks that transform nontrivially under QCD color, SU(2)_W as well as an SU(N)_{ic} infracolor group. Our main motivation is to show that the recent Wjj excess observed by CDF naturally arises in quirky models. The basic pattern is that several different quirky states can be produced, some of which beta-decay during or after spin-down, leaving the lightest electrically neutral quirks to hadronize into a meson that subsequently decays into gluon jets. We analyze LEP II, Tevatron, UA2, and electroweak precision constraints, identifying the simplest viable models: scalar quirks ("squirks") transforming as color triplets, SU(2)_W triplets and singlets, all with vanishing hypercharge. We calculate production cross sections, weak decay, spin-down, meson decay rates, and estimate efficiencies. The novel features of our quirky model includes: quirkonium decay proceeds into a pair of gluon jets, without a b-jet component; there is essentially no associated Zjj or gamma+jj signal; and there are potentially new (parameter-dependent) contributions to dijet production, multi-W production plus jets, W+gamma, gamma+gamma resonance signals, and monojet signals. There may be either underlying event from low energy QCD deposition resulting from quirky spin-down, and/or qualitatively modified event kinematics from infraglueball emission.

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