How to study longitudinal W's in the TeV region
Creators
- 1. Randall Physics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 (USA)
- 2. High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
Description
Using some new techniques we examine ways to experimentally study interactions of longitudinal W bosons in the TeV region, and to detect a heavy Higgs boson (mass ≥1 TeV) if it exists. This is a problem that must be solved if we are eventually to fully understand and test how the SU(2)xU(1) symmetry of the standard model is broken. To do so at a hadron collider requires methods to discriminate against large backgrounds. We use a new method based on the color properties of the signal and background, leading to a multiplicity cut, and we use analysis techniques that do not reduce the signal events by strong cuts. Our techniques do not bias W decay distributions and we conclude that it is possible to detect longitudinal W 's even in the presence of background. Results are given for how it is possible to study these matters at the Superconducting Super Collider. The use of the ''equivalence theorem'' between longitudinal W 's and Goldstone scalars is examined in several ways; in particular, we emphasize that in practice the equivalence does not hold numerically when the widths of heavy resonances are included in the traditional way, i.e., using the Breit-Wigner prescription. The violations are numerically large
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 2231-2244
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21017072
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BREIT-WIGNER FORMULA; CROSS SECTIONS; DECAY; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; HIGGS BOSONS; MASS; MULTIPLICITY; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; STANDARD MODEL; SU-2 GROUPS; SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEV RANGE; U-1 GROUPS; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STORAGE RINGS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; SYNCHROTRONS; U GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS