Mirror mesons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Abstract

The existence of mirror partners of Standard-Model fermions offers a viable alternative to a fundamental BEH mechanism, with the coupling corresponding to the gauged mirror generation symmetry becoming naturally strong at energies around 1 TeV. The resulting non-perturbative processes produce dynamical katoptron masses which might range from 0.1 to 1.15 TeV in a way circumventing usual problems with the S parameter. Moreover, they create mirror mesons belonging in two main groups, with masses differing from each other approximately by a factor of six and which might range approximately from 0.1 to 2.8 TeV. Since the corresponding phenomenology expected at hadron colliders is particularly rich, some interesting mirror-meson cross-sections are presented, something that might also lead to a deeper understanding of the underlying mirror fermion structure. Among other findings, results in principle compatible with indications from LHC concerning decays of new particles to two photons are analyzed.