Strongly interacting <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>WW</mi></math></span> system: Gold-plated modes

J. Bagger; V. Barger; K. Cheung; J. Gunion; T. Han; G. A. Ladinsky; R. Rosenfeld; C. -P. Yuan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1246

Strongly interacting $WW$ system: Gold-plated modes

J. Bagger, V. Barger, K. Cheung, J. Gunion, T. Han, G. A. Ladinsky, R. Rosenfeld, and C. -P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. D 49, 1246 – Published 1 February 1994

Abstract

In this paper we survey the signals and backgrounds for a strongly interacting electroweak symmetry-breaking sector at hadron supercolliders in the TeV region. We study the process $pp \to WWX$ , and compute the rates for the "gold-plated" channels, where $W^{\pm} \to l^{\pm} ν$ and $Z \to l^{+} l^{-} (l = e, μ)$ , for a wide variety of models. Using a forward jet-tag, a central jet-veto, and a back-to-back lepton cut to suppress the standard model backgrounds, we demonstrate that the SSC and CERN LHC have substantial sensitivity to strong interactions in the electroweak symmetry-breaking sector.

Received 16 June 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1246

Authors & Affiliations

J. Bagger¹, V. Barger², K. Cheung³, J. Gunion⁴, T. Han^5,4, G. A. Ladinsky⁶, R. Rosenfeld⁷, and C. -P. Yuan⁶

¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
²Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
³Department of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
⁴Davis Institute for High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
⁵Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510
⁶Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
⁷Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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