Discovering Technicolor at Hadron Colliders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Strategies are presented for discovering light, color-singlet technipions (pi_T) produced in association with a vector boson through s-channel technirho production, at the Tevatron and LHC. Signal and W+jets background were simulated including detector effects. Tagging of b-quarks from the pi_T -> bb decay is found to be important to reduce the W+jets background. Kinematic properties of signal and background events are significantly different and simple cuts can be used to further improve the signal to background ratio.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9612280,
title = {Discovering Technicolor at Hadron Colliders},
author = {John Womersley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9612280},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX; to appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study (Snowmass 1996)