Mass-degenerate heavy vector mesons at hadron colliders

作者:Piai M*; Round M
来源:Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics , 2010, 37(8): 085009.
DOI:10.1088/0954-3899/37/8/085009

摘要

We study the LHC phenomenology of two mass-degenerate heavy gauge bosons with the same quantum numbers as Z and gamma. We give a leading-order estimate of the number of events expected in Drell-Yan processes in terms of the parameters of the model (mass and coupling) and of the LHC machine specifications (integrated luminosity and energy). We consider the feasibility of measuring a forward-backward asymmetry for various choices of the parameters and estimate the potential reach. We comment on how the results may affect future collider design and apply our results to a specific model of electro-weak symmetry breaking by way of example.

  • 出版日期2010-8