The Neutral $Z$ boson pair production due to radion resonance at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is an interesting process to explore the notion of warped geometry (Randall-Sundrum model). Because of the enhanced coupling of radion with a pair of gluons due to trace enomaly and top(quark) loop, the radion can provide larger event rate possibility as compared to any New Physics effect. Using the proper radion-top-antitop (with the quarks being off-shell) coupling, we obtain the correct radion production rate at LHC and explore several features of a heavier radion decaying into a pair of real $Z$ bosons which subsequently decays into charged $4 l (l=e, \mu)$ leptons (the gold-plated mode). Using the signal and background event rate, we obtain bounds on radion mass $m_\phi$ and radion vev $\vphi$ at the $5\sigma$, $10\sigma$ discovery level.
Categories: hep-ph