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Paul Bernardo – One of Canada's most notorious Rapists and Killers
May 20, 2017 By Parkaman Magazine 1 Comment
Paul Bernardo
Born August 27, 1964 in Toronto, Ontario, Paul Kenneth Bernardo will go down as one of the most notorious rapists and serial killers in Canadian history. Bernardo was the result of an affair his mother had that was kept a secret until he was 16 years of age. Kenneth Bernardo, who Paul had thought was his biological father, was convicted of child molestation in 1975 and was rumoured to be the "peeping tom"of the neighbourhood. And even though he was never charged with any offences, rumours circulated that Kenneth was sexually abusing Paul's younger sister.
By all reports Paul's life of crime began with his first sexual assault on May 4, 1987. Bernardo was responsible for 11 sexual assaults over a period of the next three years in the Toronto area. Bernardo moved to St Catherines, Ontario on February 1, 1991 only to sexually assault his twelfth victim on April 6, 1991. Some reports suggest there may be as many as nineteen reported victims in total and an unknown number of assaults that were never reported to law enforcement.
Tammy Homolka
On December 23, 1990 Bernardo would commit his first murder with the assistance of his then girlfriend, Karla Homolka. The victim would be the fifteen year old sister of Karla, Tammy. The pair drugged Tammy and took turns sexually assaulting her all the while videotaping the series of events. Whether it was a combination of the alcohol Tammy was given, or the effects of the narcotics used to incapacitate her, she began to vomit and ultimately died. The couple did call 9-1-1 but not before dressing Tammy and moving her to a bedroom in the basement. The official cause of death was listed as accidental – choking on her vomit after the consumption of alcohol.
Leslie Mahaffy
During the course of the next few months Bernardo seemed to take a step back from his sadistic and bizarre sexual behavior but that all changed for the worse on June 15, 1991. While cruising the area looking to steal licence plates he came across fourteen year old Leslie Mahaffy. Bernardo used the offer of a cigarette to get Mahaffy close to his vehicle at which point he overpowered the young girl and forced her into his car. Bernardo returned home and for the next twenty-four hours he and Homolka took turns sexually assaulting Mahaffy all the while videotaping their sick sexual fantasies. The following day Mahaffy died but the cause of death was never confirmed. There are suggestions she died of a drug overdose and there are also suggestions she was strangled. After the murder, Bernardo used his grandfather's circular saw to cut up Mahaffy and encase her body parts in cement. The cement blocks were then transported to a nearby lake where they were dumped in the water. One piece of the cement weighed over two hundred pounds and Bernardo was unable to get the piece very far from shore. This piece of evidence would ultimately lead the police to the remaining pieces of cement and allow them to positively identify Mahaffy.
Two weeks after the murder of Leslie Mahaffy, Bernardo and Karla Homolka were married in a lavish ceremony and followed by a honeymoon in Hawaii. When Bernardo was arrested a newspaper article was found in his possession describing a sexual assault that occurred during the time he was in Hawaii. He was never charged in this case but it still remains an open investigation.
Kristen French
Bernardo's next murder occurred on April 16, 1992 with the abduction occurring in a church parking lot in broad daylight. The unfortunate victim was fifteen year old Kristen French. Over the next three days French was forced to watch the sexual torture and murder of Leslie Mahaffy while being fed large amounts of alcohol. French, like Mahaffy, was repeatedly sexually assaulted by both Bernardo and Homolka while having the entire event videotaped. French was eventually strangled by Bernardo and her naked body was dumped by the side of a road.
On February 17, 1993 DNA matched Bernardo to three sexual assaults that had occurred years earlier in the Toronto area. Karla Homolka was also arrested in what would turn out to be the most talked about plea bargain in Canadian legal history. She was only sentenced to twelve years for her part in the sexual assaults and murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. Most legal experts agree that she was a willing participant in the murder and torture, but key video evidence was not available to the Crown Prosecutor at the time of the deal.
Bernardo will go down in history as one of the most sadistic sexual predators in Canadian history. He has admitted, off the record, to sexually assaulting as many as 30 females during the course of his crime spree. On September 1, 1995 Bernardo was convicted in the murders and aggravated sexual assaults of both Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French and sentenced to twenty five years. During the course of sentencing Bernardo was also declared a dangerous offender which means he will spend the rest of his life behind bars in a tiny 8 X 10 cell at the Millhaven Institution in Bath Ontario.
bobby says
I got 12 years for robbery
and this bitch got the same amount of time for rape kidnapping /torture and multiple murder

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Mon. 21 vs. Pneumonia Open # @ Spring Valley Lake 11 a.m.
Wed. 6 vs. OEC Tee-Off Classic @ Candlewood Country Club 7:30 a.m.
Mon. 11 vs. Cuyamaca Classic * @ Sycuan Golf Resort 8 a.m.
Wed. 13 vs. Eagle Classic * @ Soboba Springs Country Club 11 a.m.
Wed. 20 vs. OEC Neutral Match * @ Royal Vista 11 a.m.
Mon. 25 vs. Riverside Invitational @ Victoria Golf Course 11 a.m.
Wed. 27 vs. Cypress * @ Candlewood Country Club 9 a.m.
Mon. 4 vs. Rig City Invitational @ Bakersfield Country Club 10 a.m.
Mon. 11 vs. Irvine Valley * @ Tustin Ranch Golf Course 10 a.m.
Mon. 25 vs. Riverside * @ Victoria Golf Course 11 a.m.
Mon. 1 vs. Orange Coast * @ Los Lagos Golf Course 11 a.m.
Mon. 8 vs. SoCal Regional Preview @ Los Serranos Golf Club 8 a.m.
Wed. 10 vs. Mt. SAC * @ Industry Hills Golf Course 11 a.m.
Mon. 15 vs. Saddleback * @ Arroyo Trabuco 11:30 a.m.


We are proud to host guest artist & instructor Jean Vadal Smith who is bringing her Southern California studio to San Anselmo! She specializes in making the artistic process simple & approachable for children (including her own grandchildren). In her Lil' Monet Art Camp, children explore the world of color and painting through watercolor, acrylic and collage on illustration board, natural wood and stretched canvas. Jeannie is looking forward to working with your child this summer!
Jean Vadal Smith has been painting since she was 10 years old. Growing up in suburban Michigan amongst 8 brothers and sisters, her box of crayons and simple set of watercolors were her creative escape.
Now after more than 40 years of learning, creating and perfecting her craft, she takes great joy helping young children find their own creative sparks! She has studied under many great teachers and been showcased in galleries and private collections across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Costa Rica. She has been teaching children and adult classes in southern California for more than twenty years. After recently moving to Marin County, Jean currently keeps busy hosting an online gallery storefront at Etsy.com and teaching local children's classes through Mill Valley Parks and Recreation and Le Petit Jardin of San Anselmo.


Rec and roll: You can learn circus-style aerial fitness in a Millyard studio!
I always thought of my neighbor, Emme, as the academic type. She wears eyeglasses, collects degrees, and plans to become a professor. Then I saw some amazing photos on Facebook: Emme suspended in bands of silk, like the acrobats I first saw in Cirque de Soleil. As the months went by, Emme, who has a fear of heights, worked hard at her new hobby. In May, I watched her practice in a private class, and was astonished to see my academic friend transformed into a confident, strong, graceful aerialist who could show many ways of knotting the silks, going up and down, and hanging upside down!
This magical transformation occurred at the Kama Fitness studio, 33 Commercial St., Manchester, a converted mill building with the high ceilings needed for hanging silks. Owner and trainer Karlene Linxweiler was a high school history teacher at Pinkerton Academy in Derry when she began teaching aerial yoga (using suspended loops for support), and then aerial fitness (using two suspended strips of silk).
Linxweiler gained certification through the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, Vt., and eventually opened her spacious, sunny Millyard studio, where there are also classes in barre, ballet, and Pilates. It was her goal to have a studio by age 30, and she met her goal. Over a thousand students have learned with Linxweiler.
The cost for the first class is $20, and after that regular classes are $30 each. Discount packages are available. For more information, see the Kama Fitness website.


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Berehanu Wendemu Tsegu (born 30 September 1999) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He holds a personal best of 27:00.73 minutes for the 10,000 metres. He was the
10,000 metres champion at 2019 African Games.

He finished second at the 2018 Corrida de Houilles. In 2019, he also won the Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon with a time of 59:56, only four seconds slower than the course record at the time.

He tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO), a banned blood booster, at the 2019 Copenhagen Half Marathon. Though he initially disputed the results, he later admitted to the violation and received a four-year ban from the sport. This occurred during a period where World Athletics had highlighted Ethiopia as a country at risk of widespread doping, which was followed by the launch of an education programme by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation.

See also
List of doping cases in athletics

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1999 births
Living people
Ethiopian male long-distance runners
African Games gold medalists for Ethiopia
African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
21st-century Ethiopian people

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The World Bank Pension Reform Primer aims to provide a comprehensive toolkit for policy makers on designing and implementing pension reform. It is based on continuously updated information from countries that have introduced reforms emphasizing the role of privately-managed individual retirement accounts. Their experience offers a number of useful lessons for policy-makers elsewhere.


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Expunging Elder Abuse Records in Escondido
If a caregiver is charged with elder abuse and is convicted in Escondido, will that record of abuse follow him or her in the event that he or she attempts to find another job working at a nursing home or assisted-living facility in Southern California? Can a person convicted of nursing home abuse apply to have this particular type of record expunged, thereby allowing that person to apply (potentially successfully) for employment at a skilled nursing facility in the area? According to a recent article in the Valley Road Runner, a particular California law may allow for the expungement of abuse records in certain cases. For San Diego-area residents whose loved ones have been the victims of elder abuse, this is particularly disconcerting.
What else should you know about California laws concerning the records of caregivers?
Expunging Records of Elder Abuse
Can a record of elder abuse really be expunged or sealed upon the request of an abuser? According to the article, a family member of a Southern California resident, Kim Oakley, suffered serious injuries at the hands of a caregiver. The caregiver, an in-home nurse, was caught on video engaging in acts of physical abuse. The caregiver was convicted of a violation of California Penal Code 368. Chapter 13 of this law concerns "crimes against elders, dependent adults, and persons with disabilities." However, after serving a sentence for crimes committed, the caregiver petitioned under California Penal Code 1203.4 to have the record of conviction "sealed or expunged," meaning that it would not be known to subsequent employers. The court granted the caregiver's request.
Following news about the expungement, Kim Oakley became angry that a caregiver who had committed abuse could be eligible not only to have a criminal record expunged, but also potentially to be eligible to work again as a caregiver in another setting. As such, Oakley started a petition to encourage lawmakers to change the language of California Penal Code 1203.4, which permits certain crimes to be expunged. While the law makes clear that some crimes are not eligible to be sealed or expunged, as the article explains, crimes that fall under Chapter 13—"the one for abusing elderly and disabled people"—is not currently listed as a crime ineligible for expungement.
As such, persons convicted of crimes against elderly or disabled Californians can be eligible to have those records sealed or expunged. Oakley's petition seeks to change that aspect of the law so that anyone convicted of a crime against a vulnerable person under the law cannot be eligible to have that record hidden.
Implications of Expunging a Record of Elder Abuse
What happens when an abuser's criminal record is expunged? As Oakley explains, "that means, as per his expunged criminal record, he doesn't have to tell an employer he was convicted of abusing a vulnerable adult . . . or that he lost his nursing license." She underscores the importance of making a change to the law, noting that "a justice system that allows caregivers convicted of abusing disabled persons to hide . . . is a threat to public safety," and that "people that physically harm vulnerable adults are dangerous people."
Many people applying for care are required to submit to background checks, but when a record is expunged, it may be difficult for an employer to learn about an applicant's history. While the decision to expunge a record is up to the discretion of the judge and must be in the "interests of justice," the article raises questions about risks of nursing home abuse from staff members with histories of crimes against elders and other vulnerable adults.
Contact an Escondido Elder Abuse Lawyer
If you have questions about filing a nursing home abuse lawsuit, an experienced elder abuse lawyer in Escondido can assist you. Contact the Walton Law Firm today for more information.
Elder Mistreatment Education at USC
Verdict in Favor of Injured Senior in California Elder Abuse Case
(image courtesy of Byron Johnson)
Tagged: criinal record, elder abuse, elder care, expungement and record
Updated: March 12, 2017 7:09 am


Apple has instituted a number of price changes and special offers in recent hours, reflecting statements made by chief financial officer, Fred Anderson last night.
Anderson promised that Apple would be spending more on marketing and special holiday offers over the coming months. Now (after slashing iMac prices yesterday), Apple UK has launched the "Digital Memories" promotion.
Apple is offering customers buying a CD-RW iMac between October 16 and December 31, 2001 an HP Photosmart 318 2.3-megapixel digital camera - for a pound!
iMacs can be purchased from the online Apple Store, or participating authorised resellers. If purchased at the Apple Store, the camera will ship with the order for a nominal £1. If purchased at a reseller, customers must download and fill in a coupon to take advantage of the offer, and pay a a shipping and handling fee of £15.


The official qualifying for the MOTEGI GT 250km RACE GRAND FINAL, Round 8 of the 2018 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, was held at the Motegi Twin Ring Circuit in Tochigi Prefecture on November 10 (Sat.). In the GT500 class, the No. 8 ARTA NSX-GT driven by Tomoki Nojiri and Takuya Izawa won pole position for the third time this season. Also the season ranking leader, the No. 100 RAYBRIG NSX-GT (Naoki Yamamoto/Jenson Button) qualified 2nd to put themselves in good position to go for a first season title. In the GT300 class, the class pole position went to the No. 88 MANEPA LAMBORGHINI GT3 (Kazuki Hiramine/Marco Mapelli). In the race for the season's class title, the 2nd-ranked No. 65 LEON CVSTOS AMG (Haruki Kurosawa/Naoya Gamou) qualified in 2nd position while the 1st-ranked No. 55 ARTA BMW M6 GT3 (Shinichi Takagi/Sean Walkinshaw) placed 10th.
As the last round of the season, the 2018 championship titles for both classes will be decided here at Motegi, and the tension of this final competition was in the air from the start of qualifying day for both classes. Also, under the regulation, no cars would be carrying any handicap weights in this final round, making it a true test of the cars' inherent strength.
In the Q1 session of the GT500 class, former F1 world champion Jenson Button in the No. 100 RAYBRIG NSX-GT beat the former course record (1'36.316) with a lap time of 1'36.344 to top the time board. This was followed by the No. 64 Epson Modulo NSX-GT (Kosuke Matsuura) and the No. 8 ARTA NSX-GT (Takuya Izawa) in 2nd and 3rd positions to give the Honda NSX-GT a sweep of the top three spots in Q1.
The NSX-GT cars remained strong in Q2. Tomoki Nojiri in the No. 8 ARTA NSX-GT recorded a record time of 1'35.550 on his last lap to give the team its third pole of the season, following the one in Round 7 at Autopolis. Second and third positions went to the No. 100 RAYBRIG NSX-GT (Naoki Yamamoto) and No. 64 Epson Modulo NSX-GT (Bertrand Baguette) respectively to give the NSX-GT its second sweep of the top three positions following the result at the last round at Autopolis. Qualifying 4th was the fastest among the LEXUS LC500 car, the No. 38 ZENT CERUMO LC500 (Yuji Tachikawa), while the fastest NISSAN GT-R NISMO GT500 was the No. 3 CRAFTSPORTS MOTUL GT-R (Satoshi Yamamoto/Katsumasa Chiyo) in 8th position.
In the title race, the ranking leader, the No. 100 RAYBRIG NSX-GT (Yamamoto/Button) qualified 2nd to put it in good position to go for the title, while the 2nd-ranked No. 1 KeePer TOM'S LC500 (Ryo Hirakawa/Nick Cassidy) with the same number of season points qualified in a difficult 6th. The No. 8 ARTA NSX-GT (Nojiri/Izawa) the will start from pole position needs a win in tomorrow's race to keep their chance of a title alive. The last team with a shot at the title, No. 36 au TOM'S LC500 (Yuhi Sekiguchi) could only manage to qualify in 14th position, making its title chances slim.
"We desperately wanted this 1 point for our effort to take a come-from-behind season title tomorrow. In the morning official practice, the car's balance wasn't very good and I worried that it might be difficult for us to clear Q1, but the team was able to find us a good setting before the qualifying, and between Q1 and Q2 they adjusted it to my preference. So, we were able to take pole position with the team moving in a good direction." said Tomoki Nojiri.
In the GT300 class, Hiramine in the No. 88 MANEPA LAMBORGHINI GT3 (Kazuki Hiramine/Marco Mapelli) recorded a course record time in Q2 to take pole position. For Hiramine it was his first pole and for the team it was their first since the opening round at Okayama. The second and third qualifiers were the No. 65 LEON CVSTOS AMG (Haruki Kurosawa/Naoya Gamou) and the No. 0 GOODSMILE HATSUNE MIKU AMG (Nobuteru Taniguchi/Tatsuya Kataoka), which stand 2nd and 4th respectively in the season ranking, while the GT300 ranking leader, the No. 55 ARTA BMW M6 GT3 (Shinichi Takagi/Sean Walkinshaw) could only qualify in 10th position. It thus promises to be a very dramatic title race in the GT300 class.
Once again NISMO TV will provide a live English language coverage of the race with expert commentary from Sam Collins and Leigh O'Gorman. The stream starts at 3:15PM Sunday ARDT or roughly there about as things in Super GT sort of happen in their own unique time/space continuum.


In Reiki 1 we learn the traditional Reiki practices and principles of energy-work, and how to conduct energy balancing session for self healing, and on behalf of ourloved ones, on mental, spiritual emotional, and physical levels.
This level of Reiki is focused on establishing a foundation within the self and begins the practice of channeling Universal Energy.
There is no prerequisite however one must have completed Reiki 1 before moving onto Reiki 2, which is the practitioner level.
Please bring a notebook and wear comfortable clothing as this will be a hands on training.
To prepare for your attunement is is suggested you spend some time in mindful thought or meditation in the days leading up to the class.


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"Songs of Earth and Air", A concert of songs exploring spiritual themes
Time: Sat Aug 29, 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Leighton Concert Hall
"Songs of Earth and Air"
A concert of songs exploring spiritual themes
Laura Strickling, guest artist soprano
Daniel Schlosberg, piano
Saturday, August 29, 7:00pm
Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
$8 adults; $5 Faculty/Staff/Seniors; Free Students/Children
The program will include Poulenc's Air Chantés, a collection of Liszt songs answering the question: "what is love?"; Libby Larsen's landmark cycle Try Me Good King, based on the actual last words of the wives of Henry VIII; a "sampler" of American songs with meditational/prayer texts by Samuel Barber, Richard Hundley, David Sisco, Juliana Hall, and James Matheson.
Praised by The New York Times for her, "flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence," soprano Laura Strickling has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Ravinia Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and Liederfest in Suzhou, China. A devoted recitalist, she is on the artist roster of the Brooklyn Art Song Society and Vox 3 Collective, and has appeared with Joy in Singing, the Half Moon Music Festival, and SongFusion. An alumna of the Berkshire Opera Company Resident Artist Program, her operatic roles include Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimi (La boheme), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Micaëla (Carmen), and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte). New Voices, her best-selling recording with the Brooklyn Art Song Society, is available through Naxos Records. A Chicago native, Ms. Strickling currently resides in New York City and St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. For further information, visit www.laurastrickling.com.
Daniel Schlosberg has been described as an "expert pianist" (Boston Globe), and his performances have been praised for their "intellect and passion" (Washington Post). As a collaborative pianist, Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun wrote: "Daniel Schlosberg was a model accompanist, bringing out the remarkable richness of the piano writing." He recently was a featured soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in subscription performances of Messiaen's "Trois Petites Liturgies", for which he garnered critical praise. He has been on faculty as Artist-in-Residence in the music department at the University of Notre Dame since 2005.


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North Window of St. George Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. Where Archbishop Tutu prayed for a non-violent revolution. The prayers worked.
I was flying over Libya from South Africa when I watched the elections unfold last night. KLM now has wifi that even reaches the African desert. The pilot shared the news to gasps. I am as heartsick and afraid to my bones as all the Trump folks would have been had the election turned out as predicted. This will take some digesting, but let me share a few thoughts as we head to a home I hardly recognize and maybe never knew.
Between TC and me we have four daughters and two grandsons. I am thinking of them and the wild uncertainties facing them as they will find their way in this unhinged world. They have been raised to respect faith and logic times art and science and the truth that emerges from all four. They have lived among people of difference in culture, race, language and nation, so watching a victory that looks like the opposite of all that is a deep shock.
We were in South Africa meeting with the Fellows of the Leading Causes of Life, most of whom were formed in life, character and work by the horrors of apartheid and the traumatizing uncertainties of resistance. TC and I went by St. George's Cathedral where Archbishop Tutu galvanized the improbable non-violent movement of Spirit that surprised everyone with a peaceful transition to a new democracy. Amazing things happen sometimes. We lit a candle at the Shrine of the African Madonna for our fragile nation. I'd ask for our money back for the candle since the prayers didn't work. But maybe the work is ahead.
TC lighting a candle for the fragile USA democracy at the Shrine of the African Madonna. Didn't work out so great. So far.
Politics is not the entertainment channel. Different votes change the flow of power, money and legal authority to set the rules for love and marriage, work and free voice. It matters and will change more than many of the Trump folks understand. Politics is not about sending a message; it is about putting people in charge of governing. We just elected people who have shown not the slightest interest in the actual work of governing, so we have no idea at all what happens next. Nor do they.
I've been confused about how my country works ever since Reagan won so others will have to sort out the politics. I have long been especially saddened as a Christian, although there the South Africans give me a clue. The radical apartness of South African rested on Christian language and logic, all in the service of the Boer people who saw themselves a special people in the world constantly reinforced by a theological and cultural backbone. When threatened and afraid, they prayed but not for understanding. In the end, it all collapsed as any tribal in-turning does on our round globe.. For many reasons Apartheid could not last, but one of them was the energy and intelligence of Christian resistance sustained through very dark years which offered little rational path forward against raw state power .It's theological foundation was a sand castle exposed not by the secular intelligentsia, but by other Christians. This had many witnesses, but turned when a small group published the kairos document declaring Apartheid a sin and the failure to name it as such heresy. (Jim helped write it.)
Not all the blood lust is aimed at the poor. In fact, I don't think that Mr. Trump cares one way or another about poor people. I don't think my side lost because we are for mercy and justice. A lot of anger is aimed at those of us who claim to be helping the poor while benefiting ourselves. Bill and Hillary offered spectacular targets with an FBI bullseye as a last impression.
Image of the moon shot on my Iphone through a telescope on the Karoo. I like that it shines despite all the craters.
My simple point is to not reject the language of faith just because of the weirdly constant Evangelical support for anyone who fights against what they fear even if the candidate so clearly do not share the faith. I can sort of understand the alt-right folks with all the guns and unhinged conspiracy ideas. But I don't understand my Christians who have lent the cross to Mr. Trump. I wonder who they'll get to pray over it all and what they'll say.
I know this is the time to speak in the language of faith, but of the kind of faith that welcomes the stranger, sides with the poor and seeks mercy and justice. As in South Africa, such faith finds common cause with people of many other faiths.
Don't give up the big words, ideas and durable truth. But put your body where it matters, too. Let me be explicit about Muslims and Hispanics, the two groups singled out for special fear. Mr Trump has telegraphed the punch. South Africa 101: make sure white Christians stand so close that we get hit, too.
I work in the broad field of health science, including hospitals and all the institutions relevant to the health of the public. Nobody has any idea what Mr. Trump's election will mean for the policy frameworks of our work, because there has been no thought about it. There has never been any serious alternative proposal other than resistance to President Obama. I suspect there will be lots of change in language and show, but not much fundamental changes in the basic policies. Obamacare is really just the inexorable advance of science shifting the balance from expensive treatment to long term management and prevention. It decenters the privileges of the hospital specialists in favor of the simpler mundane things that make and keep people healthy. Much of the current problems result protecting the role of the insurance companies who have no interest or even curiosity about poor or working class people. Now that the Republicans—or whoever they are—go to governing, I will be surprised if they don't reinvent Obamacare which was just reinventing Romnycare.
The Leading Causes of Life Fellows talking through the work of generation amid broken societies.
Academic Medical Centers are a whole different negotiated set of compromises and protected privileges all built on the sanctity of science. Mr. Trump seems more inclined to go to Mars than invest in hard science relevant to health. But who knows what exactly will be undone, redone and replaced? We'll see.
This is true for nearly every single area of civic life—not just health policy–where government policy intersects with fluid culture and moving technology. Who knows? If Mr. Trump chooses some people who actually want to undo privilege on behalf of making things better, there could be some ground to work on once they get over whooping it up over The Obamas.
Before we go into hard core resistance mode, we should listen carefully to the fear and sense of loss that was strong enough to overlook the obvious lack of decency. While it is hard to overlook the hot froth whipped up around race and gender we just don't know how much was also about the loss of moral credibility of the privileged. We just elected one of the most weirdly privileged insiders of them all, but I know that's most of his supporters were certainly not. We won't get anywhere if we don't listen.
I work for—have long worked for—agencies of great privilege and oddly complicit wealth. Emory floats on Coke, Wake Forest on tobacco and Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare plantation cotton. I am among the privileged elite that the Trump movement has found so deeply unworthy of trust. I've long found financial support among Foundations that are even more privileged. All of these privileges rest on the moral claim that the poor and the vulnerable benefit from the array of programs to advance public health and healing. This moral claim is part of what is rejected, along science itself. Its not just evolution and climate change, but pretty much the whole idea of scientific ideas. But clearly, those of us with science at our side have not always used that science to pursue the needs of the poor. Large fractions of nearly all budgets end up flowing toward the professionals.
Schoenstatt retreat center near Cape Town where we met. It has been a Catholic training center back into the anti-apartheid days.
Part of modern health policy is an enhanced focus on Community Benefit, driven mostly by Senator Grassley. The point is to force non-profit hospitals to prove how we are fulfilling our social contract—and earn our tax privileges. Wake Forest Medical Center just last week approved a pretty good Community Benefit Plan. It is a legal document but also a moral one. By hospital standards it is progressive and almost bold. But it is hardly sacrificial. I suspect the average Trump supporter would find it less than compelling.
The point is that we—every privileged institution–will have to do be worthy of trust and continued support of a deeply untrusting body politic. The vote does shown they are willing to throw out any traditional allegiance they sense is part of the general betrayal they are feeling. Real work that provides real value to normal people at a fair cost is how trust grows. Obviously, this is exactly where the focus of Stakeholder Health, 100 Million Lives and FaithHealthNC are focused. In this fractured moment, we must do it, and not just say it.
I expect to spend more time in big public demonstrations protecting the rights of the most vulnerable and stigmatized. But we also have to show up at the committee tables where the boring work of governance is figured out.
A little humility will go a long, long way in these days.
And bring all the scraps of faith you can find, too. Maybe we should have lit another couple candles to see the way.
Chapel at the Schoenstatt Retreat Center. I'm glad it is alarmed. I am, too.
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kennethcarder says:
Thank you, Gary, for this thoughtful, prophetic word! You speak the truth with humility and courage, thereby lighting a candle of hope amid the darkness of these days.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

The LHC has seen an indication of a diphoton resonance at 750 GeV in the CMS \cite{CMS:2015dxe,CMS-PAS-EXO-16-018,Moriond-CMS} and ATLAS \cite{ATLAS-diphoton,Moriond-ATLAS,ATLAS-CONF-2016-018} experiments.  Many potential classes of new physics explanations have been catalogued in refs. \cite{Franceschini:2015kwy,Staub:2016dxq} and a large number of papers have suggested additional possibilities.  It has turned out to be challenging to create models that are consistent with the properties of the resonance, do not violate constraints established by previous experiments, and do not include unreasonably large numbers of new particles.  This letter proposes a new explanation for the resonance that has the virtue of being part of a model that is already established to be consistent with other existing constraints on new electroweak physics.

A challenge in proposing new states to explain the diphoton signal is they must be readily enough produced to agree with the observed cross-section while evading constraints imposed by the lack of observed signals in dijet, $WW$, $ZZ$ channels at 750 GeV. Following the prescription used in \cite{1512.04939}, for a narrow resonance ${\mathcal R}$, the resonance production cross section times diphoton branching ratio needed to explain the signal at the 13 TeV LHC is estimated to be\footnote{ A more recent estimate, including initial data from the 13 TeV run, yields a somewhat lower value for the estimated cross section, with a central value of 4.8-5.5 fb$^{-1}$ \cite{Franceschini:2016gxv}. These revised cross section estimates are within the range considered here.}
\begin{equation}
\sigma(pp \to {\mathcal R} \to \gamma \gamma )= 6.26 \pm 3.32\  \text{fb}\ .
\label{eq:signal}
\end{equation}
{ In what follows, we will consider regions of parameter space that produce 13 TeV signal cross sections of between 3 and 9.4 fb$^{-1}$.}
At the same time, exclusions on a $750$ GeV resonance ${\mathcal R}$ decaying to other standard model (SM) particles are determined by using the following set of values taken from {8 TeV LHC} experimental analyses:
\begin{description}
\item \qquad\qquad $\sigma({pp \to {\mathcal R} \to Z \gamma }) < 8.2\ \text{fb}$  \cite{Aad:2014fha}, \qquad $\sigma({pp \to {\mathcal R} \to W^{+} W^{-} }) < 37\ \text{fb}$ \cite{Aad:2015agg},
\item \qquad\qquad $\sigma({pp \to {\mathcal R} \to Z Z }) < 19\ \text{fb}$ \cite{Aad:2015kna}, \qquad $\sigma({pp \to {\mathcal R} \to g g }) < 2200\ \text{fb}$ \cite{CMS-PAS-EXO-14-005},
\item \qquad\qquad $\sigma({pp \to {\mathcal R} \to t \bar{t}  }) < 700\ \text{fb}$ \cite{Aad:2015fna}.
\end{description}

We will show in this note that the observed diphoton resonance could be due to scalar and pseudoscalar states in the renormalizable coloron model \cite{Bai:2010dj}, a model that has been previously studied in the literature \cite{Chivukula:1996yr,Hill:1993hs,Dicus:1994sw} and is already known to be consistent with electroweak precision constraints and theoretical constraints \cite{Chivukula:2013xka,Chivukula:2014rka,Chivukula:2015kua}.  More specifically, either the scalar or pseudoscalar state in the model could be responsible for the diphoton signal -- or the two states could be degenerate and jointly responsible.

The model contains an extended color gauge group and the new scalar and pseudoscalar arise as part of the sector that spontaneously breaks the extended group down to standard QCD.  In consequence, the new scalars do not couple directly to quarks and their mixing with the Higgs (which could induce a small indirect coupling to quarks) must be nearly zero to comport with precision electroweak data.  Rather, the new scalars couple to spectator quarks that help cancel gauge anomalies in the theory. Gluon pairs coupled to loops of these spectators allow for s-channel production of the scalars at LHC; photon pairs likewise coupled to spectator loops allow for decay.  Because production and decay are all occurring through loop-level processes, the dijet, $WW$,  $ZZ$, and $Z\gamma$ rates can be small enough to be consistent with the LHC constraints.

One last key element arises because the extended color sector yields an octet of massive coloron bosons that would be visible at LHC.  The most recent limits on colorons have been set by CMS, which finds that the coloron mass must exceed 5.1 TeV \cite{Khachatryan:2015dcf,Chivukula:2011ng,Chivukula:2013xla}. Because the scalars are part of the color symmetry-breaking sector, their vacuum expectation value ($v_{s}$) is linked to the mass of the coloron~\cite{Chivukula:2013xka}; hence, the new limit on the coloron mass means that $v_{s}$ must be at least $1.7$ TeV.\footnote{As explained below, in what folows we will use $v_{s}=2$ TeV for illustration. Larger values are also allowed, though the fermion content of the theory must be adjusted accordingly to accomodate the observed diphoton signal.}

Putting all of this information together, we find that the renormalizable coloron model is consistent with all of the data if one adds a few weak-singlet spectators to complement the weak-doublet spectators in the original model. The presence of the additional spectators enables the new scalar and/or pseudoscalar to be visible as a diphoton resonance without producing dijet, $WW$, or $ZZ$ events that would contravene the LHC bounds.  Moreover, the addition of weak-singlet scalars leaves the model still in agreement with precision electroweak constraints and has only a small impact on the details of how the other theoretical constraints ({\it e.g.} triviality) are satisfied.\footnote{A previous paper in the literature~\cite{Liu:2015yec} suggested coloron decay to diphoton + jet might be the source of the LHC diphoton signal.  That work did not include any contribution from scalar or pseudoscalar states which are the focus of the present work. Moreover it assumed a coloron mass of $2$ TeV, which is now well below the LHC's exclusion limit of $5.1$ TeV.}

In the rest of this letter, we lay out the details of how the diphoton resonance appears in the renormalizable coloron model, what model components are necessary to ensure compliance with all phenomenological constraints, and what open questions should be studied if the resonsance is confirmed by additional LHC data.  In section 2, we briefly review the elements of the renormalizable coloron model.  Section 3 presents our calculations related to the diphoton signal observed at LHC.  Section 4 presents a discussion and summarizes our conclusions.

\section{Elements of the Model}
\label{sec:model}

\subsection{Bosonic Sector}
\label{subsec:boson}

The renormalizable coloron model is based on an extended $SU(3)_{1c} \times SU(3)_{2c}$ gauge symmetry, where color $SU(3)_C$ is identified with the diagonal subgroup of the larger group.
The extended group is broken down via the expectation value of a $(3,\bar{3})$ scalar,
$\Phi$, which may be decomposed into gauge eigenstates of QCD as follows
\begin{equation}\label{Phi}
\Phi = \frac{1}{\sqrt{6}} \pbrac{v_{s} + s_{0} + i {\mathcal A}} {\cal I}_{3\times 3} + \pbrac{G^a_H + i G^a_G}t^a \qquad \pbrac{t^a \equiv \lambda^a/2} \ .
\end{equation}
Here the $t^a$ are the generators of $SU(3)$, $v_{s}$ is the magnitude of the vacuum expectation value breaking the extended color symmetry, $s_0$ and ${\mathcal A}$ are singlet scalar and pseudoscalar fields, and $G^a_H$ and $G^a_G$ are color-octet scalar and pseudoscalar fields. The $G^a_G$ fields are absorbed by the massive color octet vector fields, the colorons, after symmetry breaking; the  $G^a_H$ remain as physical states of the theory and their phenomenology has been studied in \cite{Bai:2010dj,Hill:1993hs}. The $s_0$ (after mixing with the Higgs field, as described below) and the ${\mathcal A}$ fields are candidate states for a diphoton resonance at 750 GeV.

The model also includes a color-singlet weak-doublet Higgs field ($\phi$), whose neutral component develops a vacuum expectation value $v_h/\sqrt{2}$ (with $v_h \approx 246$ GeV) and is responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking. The scalar component of the Higgs field that remains in the spectrum after electroweak symmetry breaking ($h_0$) mixes with the $s_0$ scalar via a mixing angle $\chi$ to form mass eigenstate scalars
\begin{align}
s & = \sin\chi \, h_0 + \cos \chi\, s_0~,\\
h & = \cos \chi\, h_0 - \sin\chi\, s_0~.
\end{align}
An analysis of the model's full scalar potential phenomenology is given in \cite{Chivukula:2013xka,Chivukula:2014rka,Chivukula:2015kua}; one key result is that the value of $\sin\chi$ is constrained to be very small ($\lesssim 0.1$).

The coloron mass in this model is given by
\begin{equation}\label{eq:coloronmass}
M^2_C = \frac{v^2_s}{6}(g^2_{s_1} + g^2_{s_2})~,
\end{equation}
where $g_{s_{1,2}}$ are the coupling constants of the two $SU(3)$ gauge-groups. The couplings
$g_{s_{1,2}}$ cannot be too large if the theory is to remain perturbative. Following
\cite{Dobrescu:2009vz}, therefore, we require that the large-$N_c$ corrected loop-counting factor be less than one,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:perturbative}
\frac{N_c\ g^2_{s_{1,2}}}{16 \pi^2}\le 1~.
\end{equation}
Using Eq. \ref{eq:coloronmass} for $N_c=3$, we then find immediately that
\begin{equation}\label{eq:massbound}
M_C \lesssim 3.0 \cdot v_{s}~,
\end{equation}
and hence, from the experimental lower bound of 5.1 TeV on the coloron mass reported by CMS
 \cite{Khachatryan:2015dcf}, we deduce that $v_{s} \gtrsim 1.7$ TeV. This will have a significant impact on the model's phenomenology. For the purposes of illustration, in the rest of the paper we choose $v_{s} = 2$ TeV. As we will see, one could always choose larger values of $v_s$ as well.\footnote{Values of $v_s$ smaller than 2 TeV will result, via Eq. \ref{eq:coloronmass} and the experimental lower bound of 5.1 TeV on the coloron mass, in large values of $g_{s_{1,2}}$ which can result in the scalar sector's having a Landau pole at very low energy scales. See discussion in Appendix \ref{sec:app-RGE}.}

\subsection{Fermion Sector}
\label{subsec:fermion}

As described in \cite{Chivukula:2015kua}, it is possible for the various chiralities and flavors of the standard quarks to be assigned charges under $SU(3)_{1c} \times SU(3)_{2c}$ in a range of ways, allowing for flavor-dependent and potentially chiral couplings to the colorons \cite{Frampton:1987dn,Bagger:1987fz,Hill:1991at,Chivukula:1996yr}. The model can also contain fermions beyond those identified with ordinary quarks. In particular, if the strong couplings of the ordinary fermions are taken to be chiral, additional spectator fermions will be {\it required} to cancel $SU(3)_{1c} \times SU(3)_{2c}$ anomalies.  While arbitrary generation-changing  flavor-dependent coloron couplings are strongly constrained by limits on flavor-changing neutral-currents~\cite{Chivukula:2013kw}, next-to-minimal flavor violation can be successfully implemented in a renormalizable coloron model so as to reproduce the observed fermion masses and mixings ~\cite{Chivukula:2013kw}. In what follows, therefore, we will assume that any flavor-dependent couplings are (at least to a good approximation) generation preserving, and that the subsequent coloron couplings are therefore flavor-diagonal. Furthermore, for simplicity of presentation, we will assume that both right-handed quarks of a given generation ({\it e.g.}, $t_R$ and $b_R$) have the same color properties. This last assumption can easily be relaxed in the analysis below, but unnecessarily complicates the discussion of the phenomenology at hand.

Even with the constraints described above, there are still several possibilities for assigning the color charges of the ordinary quarks. For instance, if all three generations of the ordinary quarks are chirally charged under the extended color gauge group (e.g., with all left-handed quarks charged under $SU(3)_{1c}$ and all right-handed quarks charged under $SU(3)_{2c}$), then three corresponding spectator fermion generations (carrying opposite chiral charges with respect to the quarks) are required to cancel the induced anomalies. On the other hand, if the chiral charge assignment of the third quark generation is opposite to those of the first two generations, only one additional spectator fermion generation (one up-like and one down-like spectator) is necessary. When all ordinary quarks are vectorially charged under the extended color interactions, no anomalies are induced and no spectator fermions are needed.
In the simplest cases we would generally expect there to be between zero and three chiral doublets of spectator fermions to cancel the anomalies of the extended color group.

In what follows we will consider a slight generalization of these possibilities. We will consider spectators charged as follows under $SU(3)_{1c} \times SU(3)_{2c} \times SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$:
\begin{itemize}
\item $N_Q$ weak doublets $Q_{L,R}$, with the $Q_L$ transforming as a $(3,1,2)_{1/6}$ and the $Q_R$ as a $(1,3,2)_{1/6}$.
\item  $n_q$ weak singlet pairs, $q_{L,R}$, with the {$q_R$} transforming as $(3,1,1)_{2/3,-1/3}$ and { $q_L$} transforming as $(1,3,1)_{2/3,-1/3}$.
\end{itemize}
With these assignments, the effective or net number of spectator doublets whose chiral charges under $SU(3)_{1c} \times SU(3)_{2c}$ help cancel the $SU(3)$ anomalies of the ordinary generations is $N_Q-n_q$. We therefore expect $0\le N_Q-n_q\le 3$. Moreover, the following Yukawa couplings give masses proportional to $v_{s}$ to the spectator fermions
\begin{equation}\label{Lferm}
- \frac{\sqrt{6}\, M_Q}{v_{s}} \bar{Q}^{k}_{L} \, \Phi \, Q^{k}_{R} - \frac{\sqrt{6}\, M_q}{v_{s}} \bar{q}^{\ell}_{L} \, \Phi^\dagger \, q^{\ell}_{R}
+h.c.~,
\end{equation}
where $k$ and $\ell$ index the $N_Q$ and $n_q$ families of spectators and, for convenience, we have taken each kind of spectator to be mass-degenerate.\footnote{We have also neglected additional Yukawa couplings of the form $\bar{Q}^k_L \phi q^\ell_R + h.c.$ , where $\phi$ is the Higgs field, which lead to weak-scale mixing among the various spectator fermions. Since we know that $v_{s} \gg v_h$, these couplings lead to small effects which are irrelevant to the analysis given below.}

\section{The Diphoton Signal at LHC}
\label{sec:diphoton}

We will now demonstrate that the scalar $s$ or pseudoscalar ${\mathcal A}$ boson of the renormalizable coloron model could give rise to a 750 GeV diphoton resonance consistent with the signal reported from early high-energy LHC data \cite{CMS:2015dxe,ATLAS-diphoton}. Following the procedure in \cite{Chivukula:2013xka,Chivukula:2014rka}, we construct an effective Lagrangian coupling the scalar and pseudoscalar bosons to the gauge bosons (having integrated out the heavy color degrees of freedom) and the ordinary fermions. We then use this effective Lagrangian to compute the relevant production cross-sections and branching ratios. We outline the relevant computations in appendices \ref{sec:appendix-i} and \ref{sec:appendix-ii}; details may be found in \cite{Chivukula:2013xka,Chivukula:2014rka}.

In the renormalizable coloron model, the width of the $750$ GeV resonance, be it scalar or pseudoscalar, must be small.\footnote{For the scalar, we expect $\sin\chi\sim 0$ in order to be consistent with phenomenological constraints \cite{Chivukula:2013xka,Chivukula:2014rka,Chivukula:2015kua} so that both scalar and pseudscalar decays are dominated by loop induced processes and the total width must therefore be small.} Hence it is possible to evaluate the total production cross-section in the Narrow Width Approximation (NWA),
\begin{equation}
\sigma_{s,{\mathcal A}}(gg \to s,\,{\mathcal A} \to \gamma \gamma) =
16\pi^2 \cdot {\cal N} \cdot \frac{ \Gamma_{s,\,{\mathcal A}}}{m_s} \cdot
BR(s,\,{\mathcal A} \to \gamma \gamma) \cdot BR(s,\,{\mathcal A}\to gg) \cdot \left[ \frac{d L_{gg}}{d\hat{s}}\right]_{\hat{s} = m^2_s}~.
\label{eq:simplest}
\end{equation} Here ${\cal N}$ is a ratio of spin and color counting factors which, for a color-singlet scalar produced via gluon fusion is:
\begin{equation}
{\cal N} = \frac{N_{S_s}}{N_{S_g} N_{S_g}} \cdot
\frac{C_{s}}{C_g C_g} = \frac{1}{4}\cdot \frac{1}{64},
\end{equation}
where $N_i$ and $C_i$, respectively, count the number of spin- and color-states for the initial-state partons (denominator) and the resonance (numerator).

Within the cross-section formula,
$L_{gg}$ is the gluon luminosity function, which we evaluate using the {\tt CTEQ6L1} parton distribution function~\cite{Pumplin:2002vw} at both 8 and 13 TeV.  In order to better match our theory predictions to the experimental results, we determine the NNLO $K$-factor using the {\tt SuSHi} program~\cite{Harlander:2012pb} in the infinite quark mass limit. We use the {\tt CT14NNLO} pdf set~\cite{Dulat:2015mca} and set  the renormalization and factorization scales to be $\mu_R=\mu_F=750 $ GeV. We find the $K$-factor to be
 $K_{NNLO/LO}^{13 TeV}\sim 2.9$ and $K_{NNLO/LO}^{8 TeV}\sim 3.2$ and we apply this to our tree-level cross-section results to make the comparison with data more meaningful.

For both the $s$ and ${\mathcal A}$ states in the renormalizable coloron model (when $\sin\chi \approx 0$), the branching ratio to $gg$ dominates so long as all of the other scalars, colorons, and spectator fermions are heavy. In fact, $BR(s,\, {\mathcal A} \to gg) \approx 1$ so that the expression for the cross-section in Eq. \ref{eq:simplest} is proportional to $\Gamma_{s,\, {\mathcal A}} \cdot BR(s,\, {\mathcal A} \to \gamma \gamma) \approx \Gamma(s,\, {\mathcal A} \to \gamma \gamma)$. Furthermore, as shown in appendices \ref{sec:appendix-i} and \ref{sec:appendix-ii}, the partial width to diphotons is dominated by the contribution from loops of the spectator quarks $Q$ and $q$. The resonant diphoton production rate is, therefore, proportional to the square of the total number of spectator fermions $(N_Q + n_q)^2$ and inversely proportional to $v_{s}^2$. Thus, as we illustrate below, for a given value of $v_{s}$ some minimum number of spectators $N_Q + n_q$ will be required to make the predicted signal match the data.\footnote{The corresponding decay to $WW$ and $ZZ$ arise through a similar loop process, but in this case only
the weak-doublet spectator fermions contribute significantly -- and hence this amplitude (exactly, for $WW$, and only approximately for $ZZ$) is proportional to $N_Q$.}

In Fig.~\ref{fig:scalar} we illustrate the region of parameter space in the renormalizable coloron model that can accomodate the observed diphoton signal  if this signal arises solely from the scalar $s$ boson. These plots are for the parameter values $ M_{Q,q} \gg 750\, {\rm GeV},\, m_\mathcal{A} =m_{G_H}=1\, {\rm TeV},\, {\rm and}\, v_{s} =2 \, {\rm TeV}$ -- though their appearance depends only weakly on $M_{Q,q}$, $m_\mathcal{A}$ and $m_{G_H}$ so long as these particles are heavy enough to prevent $s$ from decaying to pairs of them. For $v_{s}=2$ TeV and $\sin\chi=0$, the decay width to diphotons is sufficiently large to reproduce the resonance diphoton cross section of Eq. \ref{eq:signal} provided that the spectators are sufficiently numerous $(9 \lesssim N_Q + n_q \lesssim 14)$; the corresponding region is indicated in the left plot by the green (diagonally hatched) region. For larger values of $v_{s}$, the required value of $N_Q + n_q$ rises proportionally. As noted in Appendix~\ref{sec:app-RGE}, the upper third of the allowed area may be excluded by the need to avoid a Landau pole in the RGE running of the weak $SU(2)$ gauge coupling.

Also plotted are the constraints arising from the non-observation of a $WW$~\cite{Aad:2015agg}, $ZZ$~\cite{Aad:2015kna}, and dijet resonance~\cite{CMS-PAS-EXO-14-005}  of the same mass. Evidently, the most difficult constraint to satisfy in this model when $\sin\chi = 0$ is simply of having a sufficiently large diphoton signal. If one increased the value of $v_{s}$ and increased $N_Q + n_q$ proportionally so as to keep the signal strength in the diphoton channel constant, the minimum number of spectator quarks required to violate the dijet (Eq. \ref{eqn:sggwidth}) or diboson (e.g., Eq. \ref{eqn:sWWwidth}) bounds would also rise, leaving the model consistent with the data.

If the Higgs mixing angle $\sin\chi$ is not zero, two separate effects start to suppress the branching ratio to diphotons, making it difficult to sustain a large enough signal.  First the decays to $WW$ and $ZZ$ become significant and start to cut into the available parameter space.  Second there is a destructive interference in the diphoton loop amplitude between the contributions of spectator fermions and $W$ bosons running in the loop; Fig. \ref{fig:BRvariation} illustrates that as $\sin\chi$ grows, the $WW$ and $ZZ$ widths grow while the diphoton width falls. The right hand panel of Fig. \ref{fig:scalar} demonstrates that, to be consistent with the putative signal, the $s_0 - h_0$ mixing must therefore be very small, with $|\sin\chi | \lesssim 0.01$. { Note that, as for any model in which a scalar's gaining a vacuum expectation value is the origin of the diphoton signal, a small mixing angle is not the natural consequence of any symmetry and it only occurs for a narrow range of parameters in the scalar potential.}

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width= 0.47\textwidth]{scalar-constraint_Ma_Mgh-1TeV_vs-2000GeV.png}
	\includegraphics[width= 0.47\textwidth]{scalar-Constraint-vs-chi.png}
\caption{The heavy black rim (left pane) encloses the region of the $N_Q$ vs $n_q$ plane for which the renormalizable coloron model's scalar boson $s$ is consistent with the $750$ GeV diphoton signal and other constraints.   The region shown in green (diagonally hatched) matches the 1-$\sigma$ resonance diphoton cross section of Eq. \ref{eq:signal}. Also shown are the regions excluded by $s\to WW$ searches depicted with cross-hatching \cite{Aad:2015agg}, by $s \to ZZ $ searches depicted in blue (dark gray) \cite{Aad:2015kna} and by dijet searches depicted in red (lighter gray) \cite{CMS-PAS-EXO-14-005}. The regions with translucent gray overlays correspond to values of $(N_Q,n_q)$ that are not theoretically preferred (see text for details). \textbf{Left:} Plot in the $(N_Q,n_q)$ plane for the values $\sin\chi=0,\, m_\mathcal{A} =m_{G_H}=1\, {\rm TeV},\, {\rm and}\, v_{s} =2\, {\rm TeV}$. Depending on the spectator fermions included, this region is sensitive to the RGE constraints discussed in Appendix~\ref{sec:app-RGE}. \textbf{Right:} Plot in the $(\sin\chi,v_{s})$ plane for
parameter values $m_\mathcal{A} =m_{G_H}=1\, {\rm TeV},\,{\rm and}\,  (N_Q, n_q) = (6,5)$. \label{fig:scalar}    }
\end{figure}

The left pane of Fig. \ref{fig:pseudoscalar} shows the region of parameter space in the renormalizable coloron model that can accomodate the dipoton signal via a 750 GeV pseudoscalar ${\mathcal A}$ boson. Here there is no $\sin\chi$ dependence, and we find that the diphoton signal can be accomodated with fewer spectator fermions, $5 \lesssim N_Q + n_q \lesssim 8$ for $v_{s}=2$ TeV.\footnote{
This is due to the fact that the coloron and other scalars, which dominate the $s \to gg$ decay, do not contribute to $\mathcal{A} \to gg$ decays. In case of the scalar, there is destructive interference between the bosonic contributions and the spectator fermion loops, so $N_Q + n_q$ is pushed toward larger values where the fermionic contribution dominates.}
As with the scalar, if $v_{s}$ is increased, the total number of spectator fermions must be increased proportionally, but the constraints from non-observation of dijet and diboson decays do not become harder to satisfy. As noted in Appendix~\ref{sec:app-RGE}, the extent of the allowed region should be unaffected by the need to avoid a Landau pole in the RGE running of the gauge couplings.

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.47\textwidth]{Scalar-BR-chi-NQ_6-nq_5-vs_2000-Ma_1000_MGH_1000.png}
	\caption{Scalar boson ($s$) decay width and branching ratios as a function of $\sin\chi$, for the parameter values $m_\mathcal{A} = m_{G_H} = 1 \text{ TeV}$ and  $(N_Q, n_q) = (6,5)$. \label{fig:BRvariation}}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width= 0.45\textwidth]{Pseudo-scalar-constraint_vs-2000_NQ_nq.png} \includegraphics[width= 0.45\textwidth]{Degenerate-constraint_vs-2000GeV_MGh-1TeV.png}
	\caption{The heavy black rim encloses the region of the $N_Q$ vs $n_q$ plane for which the renormalizable coloron model's pseudoscalar boson ${\cal A}$ alone (left pane) or a degenerate $s,{\cal A}$ pair (right pane) is consistent with the $750$ GeV diphoton signal and other constraints. Details are as in the caption for the left pane of Fig. \ref{fig:scalar} (except that $\sin\chi$ is irrelevant for the ${\cal A}$ boson). The allowed region in each pane is unaffected by the RGE constraints in Appendix~\ref{sec:app-RGE}.
	\label{fig:pseudoscalar}}
\end{figure}

Finally, in the right pane of Fig.~\ref{fig:pseudoscalar} we consider the case in which the scalar and pseudoscalar are {roughly degenerate (to within experimental resolution)},\footnote{ There is no symmetry that would enforce strict degeneracy between the scalar and psuedo-scalar resonances in this model. For other examples of models of the diphoton signal involving degenerate resonances see~\cite{Wang:2015omi,Bai:2016rmn,Djouadi:2016eyy}.} and both have masses of 750 GeV. Here we see that $4 \lesssim N_Q + n_q \lesssim 7$ can accommodate the signal when $v_{s}\sim 2$ TeV.
For larger values of $v_{s}$, proportionally larger values of $N_Q + n_q $ would be able to explain the diphoton signal without generating dijet or diphoton rates in excess of the bounds. Here too, as shown in Appendix~\ref{sec:app-RGE}, the extent of the allowed region should be unaffected by the need to avoid a Landau pole in the RGE running of the gauge couplings.

In the quasi-degenerate case, it is interesting to note that the pseudoscalar contribution to the diphoton rate is predicted to be larger than that of the scalar contribution to the signal. In fact, one could determine the relative sizes of the scalar and pseudoscalar components of the signal through angular observables (e.g., in $\mathcal{A} ,s \to ZZ \to 4l$ decays) as a test of whether degenerate $\mathcal{A}$ and $s$ were contributing (in a manner analogous to the spin-parity measurement
of the Higgs boson \cite{Khachatryan:2014kca,Aad:2015mxa}). In Fig.~\ref{fig:pseudoscalar-ratio} we show the ratio
\begin{equation}
R_{s/\mathcal{A}} = \frac{\sigma(pp \to s \to ZZ)}{\sigma(pp \to \mathcal{A} \to ZZ)}\ ,
\end{equation}
as a function of $N_Q$ for the three possible physical cases: $n_q=N_Q$, $n_q=N_Q -1$ and $n_q=N_Q-3$.
Note that this ratio is independent of the value of $v_{s}$.
The dip observed in the ratio for $N_Q\sim4,5$  is due to a cancellation between the fermion and boson (coloron and other scalar) loops that causes the $s\to gg$ branching fraction (and hence the overall scalar production cross-section) to vanish.
Experimental determination of this ratio could help determine the value of $N_Q$ and $n_q$.\footnote{We have neglected interference effects between $s$ and $\mathcal{A}$ since the decay widths of both particles are very small and since, due to the CP symmetry of the total cross-section, there is no contribution to the total cross-section from the CP-odd interference term.}

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[width= 0.45\textwidth]{Degen_ratio_sA_ZZ.png}
	\caption{Ratio of the scalar to the pseudoscalar component of the diphoton signal as a function of $N_Q$, for quasi-degenerate $m_\mathcal{A} =m_s=750$ GeV. All three possible physical cases are shown $n_q=N_Q$ (blue circles), $n_q=N_Q -1$ (red squares)  and $n_q=N_Q-3$ (black triangles).\\
	\label{fig:pseudoscalar-ratio}
	}
\end{figure}

\section{Discussion}
\label{sec:conclusions}

We have shown that the scalar sector of the renormalizable coloron model can be the source of the 750 GeV resonance for which evidence has been observed at the LHC.  Either the scalar state $s$, the pseudoscalar state ${\cal A}$, or both (if degenerate) could play the role of the new diphoton resonance, while remaining consistent with precision electroweak physics and constraints from triviality and unitarity.

If the 750 GeV resonance is verified by further analysis and accumulation of more statistics, there are clear avenues for verifying that the renormalizable coloron model is the underlying new physics involved.  The most straightforward would be to look for direct evidence of the coloron resonance in dijet invariant mass or dijet angular distributions; indeed, the LHC experiments routinely look for signs of high-mass dijet resonances in each newly-collected data set  ({\it e.g.} \cite{Khachatryan:2015dcf}).  Alternatively, one could seek evidence within the LHC data for a second new spinless state ($s$ or ${\cal A}$) at a different mass or look for signs of the colored scalars $G^a_H$ as suggested in \cite{Bai:2010dj,Hill:1993hs}.  In addition, one could study other decay modes of the 750 GeV resonance to predict the expected number of spectator quarks or to differentiate between the scalar, pseudoscalar and degenerate cases discussed here. In the longer term, aspects of the model that would warrant further study would include the detailed impact of the weak-singlet spectator quarks upon the theoretical constraints on the model and the precise flavor structure of the quark sector in the presence of the various spectators.

We look forward to seeing what the next run reveals.

\begin{acknowledgments}
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1519045. KM acknowledges the support of the Michigan State University High Performance Computing
Center and the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research.
\end{acknowledgments}

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