Setor eletrofraco fortemente acoplado na escala TeV: teoria e fenomenologia no LHC.

Abstract

This thesis presents studies concerning a possible extension of the Standard Model, its theoretical and phenomenological characteristics. Aspects of the Standard Model that are relevant for the analysis of the electroweak sector are studied. In order to solve the hierarchy problem, a space with ve dimensions is introduced, with the fth dimension curved and compacti ed in orbifold. Within this space scalar, spinorial and vectorial elds are analysed, showing excited modes, the so-called Kaluza-Klein modes. A fourth generation of fermions is included, which makes it possible to obtain a strongly coupled electroweak sector at the TeV scale, with quarks condensation. This mechanism is possible due to non-universal couplings with the rst KaluzaKlein mode of the gluon, couplings which are stronger with the fourth generation quarks. The quarks parameters in the ve-dimensional space are determined, leading to the quark sector of the Standard Model as a low energy limit of the theory. The theoretical analysis is nished by the determination of the quarks couplings with the rst Kaluza-Klein mode of the gluon. Using the property of avor exchange by the gluon, even this being a neutral particle, a phenomenological study is carried out, showing that is possible to observe events at the LHC that indicate the existence of the strongly coupled sector, by means of the use of the cuts described in this work.