https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4230-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
LHC diphoton resonance at 
as an indication of 
electroweak symmetry
1
Centro Científico-Tecnológico de Valparaíso, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
2
Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany
* e-mail: antonio.carcamo@usm.cl
Received:
20
May
2016
Accepted:
23
June
2016
Published online:
7
July
2016
The LHC collaborations ATLAS and CMS recently reported on the excess of the events in the diphoton final states at the invariant mass of about 
. In this article we speculate on the possibility that the excess arises from the neutral CP-even component 
of the scalar triplet 
of the 
model that has a 
charge equal to 
and acquires a vacuum expectation value larger than the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. The interactions of the scalar field with the photon and gluon pairs are mediated by the virtual vector-like fermions which appear as components of the anomaly-free chiral fermion representations of the 
gauge group.
© The Author(s), 2016
