Electroweak and flavor dynamics at hadron colliders
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1996
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Lane, Kenneth D.
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Kenneth Lane. 1996. "Electroweak and Flavor Dynamics at Hadron Colliders." http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9605257v1
Abstract
We catalog the principal signatures of electroweak and flavor dynamics at ¯pp and
pp colliders for use at the 1996 Snowmass Workshop on New Directions in High Energy
Physics. The framework for dynamical symmetry breaking we assume is technicolor, with
a walking coupling αTC, and extended technicolor. The reactions discussed occur mainly
at subprocess energies √ˆs <∼1TeV. They include production of color-singlet and octet
technirhos and their decay into pairs of technipions, longitudinal weak bosons, or jets.
Technipions, in turn, decay predominantly into heavy fermions. Many of these signatures
are also expected to occur in topcolor-assisted technicolor. Several particles specific to
this new scenario are discussed. Additional signatures of flavor dynamics, associated with
quark and lepton substructure, may be sought in excess production rates for high ET and
invariant mass dijets and dileptons. An important feature of these processes is that they
exhibit fairly central angular and rapidity distributions