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Color-Singlet Technipions at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

I discuss production and detection at the Tevatron \pbarp\pbarp collider of pairs of light (\mpi=100\mpi = 100--200\gev200\,\gev) color--singlet technipions that are expected in all nonminimal models of technicolor. Gluon fusion production rates can be as large as \CO(1\pb)\CO(1\,\pb). Topcolor--assisted technicolor is required to prevent top quarks from decaying as t\ra\tpipbt \ra \tpip b. An intriguing consequence of this is that the decays \tpip\raτ+ντ\tpip \ra \tau^+ \nu_\tau, c\olsc \ol s and \tpiz\rab\olb\tpiz \ra b \ol b may also be suppressed so that \tpip\raW+γ\tpip \ra W^+ \gamma and \tpiz\raγγ\tpiz \ra \gamma\gamma are significant. These modes have spectactular signatures at the Tevatron.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9507289,
  title  = {Color-Singlet Technipions at the Tevatron},
  author = {Kenneth Lane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9507289},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, TeX using harmac macros; two uuencoded figures

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