Toward a coherent solution of diphoton and flavor anomalies

We propose a coherent explanation for the 750 gev diphoton anomaly and the hints of deviations from lepton flavor universality in b decays in terms a new strongly interacting sector with vectorlike confinement. the diphoton excess arises from the decay ofone of the pseudo-nambu-goldstone bosons of the new sector, while the flavor anomalies are a manifestation of the exchange of the corresponding vector resonances (with masses in the 1.5-2.5 tev range). we provide explicit examples (with detailed particle content and group structure) of the new sector, discussing both the low-energy flavor-physics phenomenology and the signatures at high p t . we show that specific models can provide an excellent fit to all available data. a key feature of all realizations is a sizable broad excess in the tails of τ + τ − invariant mass distribution in p p → τ + τ −, that should be accessible at the lhc in the near future.