LHC analysis of the strongly interacting WW system: Gold-plated modes

摘要

The authors study the gold-plated purely leptonic signal and background rates at the LHC for the ZZ, W(sup +)W(sup (minus)), W(sup (+-))Z and W(sup (+-))W(sup (+-)) final states associated with strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking. The authors work at an energy of (radical)s = 14 TeV, and develop a combination of back-to-back leptonic, central-jet-vetoing and forward-jet-tagging cuts that suppresses the Standard-Model backgrounds. They find that the LHC with an annual luminosity of 100 fb(sup (minus)1) will achieve a reasonably good sensitivity to the physics of strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking.