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Model for a Light Z' Boson

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

A model of a light ZZ' boson is constructed and phenomenological bounds are derived. This ZZ' boson arises from a very simple extension to the Standard Model, and it is constrained to be light because the vacuum expectation values which generate its mass also break the electroweak gauge group. It is difficult to detect experimentally because it couples exclusively or primarily (depending on symmetry breaking details) to second and third generation leptons. However, if the ZZ' boson is sufficiently light, then there exists the possibility of the two-body decay τμZ\tau \rightarrow \mu Z' occuring. This will provide a striking signature to test the model.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9401250,
  title  = {Model for a Light Z' Boson},
  author = {R. Foot and X. -G. He and H. Lew and R. R. Volkas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9401250},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages + 5 pages of figures (appended as postscipt files), LaTeX, OITS-532