Vector resonances at LHC Run II in composite 2HDM

Abstract

We consider a model where the electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by strong dynamics, resulting in an electroweak doublet scalar condensate, and transmitted to the standard model matter fields via another electroweak doublet scalar. At low energies the effective theory therefore shares features with a type-I two Higgs doublet model. However, important differences arise due to the rich composite spectrum expected to contain new vector resonances accessible at the LHC. We carry out a systematic analysis of the vector resonance signals at LHC and find that the model remains viable, but will be tightly constrained by direct searches as the projected integrated luminosity, around 200 fb${}^{-1}$, of the current run becomes available.

Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures: eqs.4,7,13-17 and fig.4 added, text revised and extended; version to appear on JHEP