Phys. Rev. D 57, 1553 - 1572 (1998)

Strongly interacting vector bosons at TeV e±e- linear colliders

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E. Boos1,2, H.-J. He3, W. Kilian4, A. Pukhov2, C.-P. Yuan5, and P. M. Zerwas3
1Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
2Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia
3Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
4Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
5Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 9 September 1997

In the absence of light Higgs bosons, the W and Z bosons become strongly interacting particles at energies of about 1 TeV. If the longitudinal W,Z components are generated by Goldstone modes associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking in a new strong interaction theory, the quasi-elastic W,Z scattering amplitudes can be predicted as a systematic chiral expansion in the energy. We study the potential of TeV e+e- and e-e- linear colliders in investigating these scattering processes. We estimate the accuracy with which the coefficients of the chiral expansion can be measured in a multi-parameter analysis. The measurements will provide us with a quantitative test of the dynamics underlying the W,Z interactions.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v57/p1553
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.1553
PACS: 11.30.Qc, 11.15.Ex, 12.15.Ji, 14.70.-e

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