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Probing strongly interacting W's at the ILC with polarized beams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-03-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the possibility of fingerprinting a strongly interacting WW boson sector which is consistent with present day LHC searches at the ILC with longitudinal as well as transversely polarized electron and positron beams. We account for the final state interaction using a suitable Omn\`es formalism in terms of a plausible resonance description, and carry out thorough analyses of cross sections, asymmetries and angular distributions of the WsW's. We carry out a comparison with other extensions of the Standard Model, where heavy additional ZZ' bosons arise naturally. We also consider the effect of the strong final state interaction on a correlation that depends on (ϕϕ+)(\phi_--\phi_+), where the ϕ\phi_\mp are the azimuthal angles of decay leptons, and find that it is a useful discriminant.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5020,
  title  = {Probing strongly interacting W's at the ILC with polarized beams},
  author = {B. Ananthanarayan and Monalisa Patra and P. Poulose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5020},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

25 pages latex using JHEP style files, 14 figures; v2 is a slightly expanded version of v1, reference added, discussions improved, some figures have been changed; corresponds to version accepted for publication in JHEP