750 GeV diphotons from closed string states

We show that low-mass-scale string compactifications, with a generic D-brane configuration that realizes the standard model by open strings, can explain the relatively broad peak in the diphoton invariant mass spectrum at 750 GeV recently reported by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. Under reasonabl...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Anchordoqui, Luis Alfredo, Antoniadis, Ignatios, Goldberg, Haim, Huang, Xing, Lüst, Dieter, Taylor, Tomasz R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/86709
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86709
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Exactas
Física
Scalars
Diphotons
Descripción
Sumario:We show that low-mass-scale string compactifications, with a generic D-brane configuration that realizes the standard model by open strings, can explain the relatively broad peak in the diphoton invariant mass spectrum at 750 GeV recently reported by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. Under reasonable assumptions, we demonstrate that the excess could originate from a closed string (possibly axionic) excitation φ that has a coupling with gauge kinetic terms. We estimate the φ production rate from photon-photon fusion in elastic pp scattering, using the effective photon and narrow width approximations. For string scales above today's lower limit M<sub>s</sub>≈7 TeV, we can accommodate the diphoton rate observed at Run II while maintaining consistency with Run I data.