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Can a light technipion be discovered at the Tevatron if it decays to two gluons?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In multiscale and topcolor-assisted models of walking technicolor, light, spin-one technihadrons can exist with masses of a few hundred GeV; they are expected to decay as rho_T -> W pi_T. For technirho masses ~200 GeV and technipion masses ~100 GeV, the process pbar p -> rho_T -> W pi_T has a cross section of about a picobarn at the Tevatron. We demonstrate the detectability of this process with simulations appropriate to Run II conditions, for the challenging case where the technipion decays dominantly into two gluons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9901202,
  title  = {Can a light technipion be discovered at the Tevatron if it decays to two gluons?},
  author = {Stephen Mrenna and John Womersley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9901202},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, LaTeX, including figures