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750 GeV diphoton resonance in a top and bottom seesaw model

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The top/bottom seesaw model, which extends the top seesaw in order to accomodate a 125 GeV Higgs boson, predicts vector-like top/bottom partners and these partners can be bounded to form several neutral and charged singlet composite scalars by some new strong dynamics. In this letter, we use such a singlet scalar to interpret the 750 GeV diphoton reseanance. This singlet scalar is dominantly produced through the gluon fusion process induced by the partners and its diphoton decay is induced by both the partners and the charged singlet scalars. We show that this scenario can readily account for the observed 750 GeV diphoton signal under the current LHC constraints. Further, this scenario predicts some other phenomenology, such as a strong correlation between the decays to $γγ$, $Z γ$ and $ZZ$, a three-photon singal from the associate production of a singlet scalar and a photon, as well as some signals from the partner cascade decays. These signals may jointly allow for a test of this framework in future LHC and ILC experiments.

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Archil Kobakhidze, Fei Wang, Lei Wu, Jin Min Yang, Mengchao Zhang. 2016-03-23. 750 GeV diphoton resonance in a top and bottom seesaw model. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.03.067

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