A spartan model for the LHC diphoton excess

Abstract: We propose a simple model accommodating the reported 750 GeV diphoton excess seen in the first 13-TeV run of the LHC. It leads to testable predictions, in particular for di-lepton production, at higher integrated luminosity. We append to the minimal standard model a new gauge sector with its own SU(2) symmetry group. A new complex doublet scalar field provides mass for the new vectors and describes the 750-GeV resonance. An adequate rate for the diphoton signals, with resonant production via photon fusion, requires the VEV of the new scalar field to be somewhat less than the electroweak scale. This in turn requires the new heavy vectors to have sub-TeV masses and be relatively strongly coupled. A new global U(1) symmetry plays a key role. Current precision-electroweak constraints are respected.