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Right-handed light quarks could be significantly composite, yet compatible with experimental searches at the LHC and precision tests on Standard Model couplings. In these scenarios, that are motivated by flavor physics, one expects large cross sections for the production of new resonances coupled to light quarks. We study experimental strong signatures of right-handed compositeness at the LHC, and constrain the parameter space of these models with recent results by ATLAS and CMS. We show that the LHC sensitivity could be significantly improved if dedicated searches were performed, in particular in multijet signals.
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Redi, M., Sanz, V., de Vries, M. et al. Strong signatures of right-handed compositeness. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 8 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)008
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