What Do the New LHC Results on \(W_{R}\) Hint About Grand Unified Theories?

Searches by the CMS collaboration for the \(W_R\) at \(\sqrt{s} = 8\) TeV have seen a \(2.8\sigma \) excess in the electron channel for an invariant final state mass (\(m_{\textit{eejj}}\)) in the range 1.8–2.4 TeV. It has been shown in the literature that this excess is compatible with models where \(g_R \approx 0.6 g_L\). We analyse the CMS result in the light of \(\textit{SO}(10)\) GUTs and show that the result can be accommodated by \(\textit{SO}(10)\) models with TeV range \(\textit{SU}(2)_R\) breaking and D-parity breaking above \(10^{12}\) GeV. In our analysis we respect the extended survival hypothesis and also shed some light on the Higgs content of such \(\textit{SO}(10)\) models.