We present the results of a global analysis of a class of models with an extended electroweak gauge group of the form $SU(2)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$, often denoted as $G(221)$ models, which include as examples the left-right, the leptophobic, the hadrophobic, the fermiophobic, the un-unified, and the nonuniversal models. Using an effective Lagrangian approach, we compute the shifts to the coefficients in the electroweak Lagrangian due to the new heavy gauge bosons, and obtain the lower bounds on the masses of the $Z^{\prime }$ and $W^{\prime }$ bosons. The analysis of the electroweak parameter bounds reveals a consistent pattern of several key observables that are especially sensitive to the effects of new physics and thus dominate the overall shape of the respective parameter contours.

• Received 4 May 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.035011