Rare decays as diagnostics for Z gauge couplings at hadron colliders

Mirjam Cvetič, Paul Langacker

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Abstract

We propose rare decays of Zf1f»2V (with V=WorZ, and f1,2 ordinary fermions) as diagnostic tests for gauge couplings of possible gauge bosons at future hadron colliders. Because of the collinear singularity such decay rates have a logarithmic enhancement proportional to In2(MZ2MV2). For MZ1 TeV and a large class of models, there would be a sufficiently large (> 102) number of leptonic and semileptonic events at projected luminosities at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and Superconducting Super Collider. A discussion of backgrounds and a comparison with the forward-backward asymmetry are given.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)R14-R18
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume46
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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