Excited Leptons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to search for excited spin-1/2 electrons and neutrinos. Assuming a SU(2)_L X U(1)_Y invariant model, we study in detail the single production of excited electrons and neutrinos and respective backgrounds through the reactions p p -> e+ e- V and e+- \nu V with V=photon, W, or Z. We show that the LHC will be able to tighten considerably the direct constraints on these possible new states, probing excited lepton masses up to 1-2 TeV depending on their couplings to fermions and gauge bosons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111001,
title = {Excited Leptons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider},
author = {O. J. P. Eboli and S. M. lietti and Prakash Mathews},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111001},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures