Z'_B-L discovery potential at the LHC for √s=7 TeV

Basso, Lorenzo, Belyaev, Alexander, Moretti, Stefano, Pruna, Giovanni Marco and Shepherd-Themistocleous, Claire H. (2010) Z'_B-L discovery potential at the LHC for √s=7 TeV. PoS, 83, [075012]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.075012).

Abstract

We discuss the prospects for setting limits on or discovering spin-1 Z′ bosons using early LHC data at 7 TeV. Our results are based on the narrow width approximation in which the leptonic Drell-Yan Z′ boson production cross section only depends on the Z′ boson mass together with two parameters c_u and c_d. We carefully discuss the experimental cuts that should be applied and tabulate the theoretical next-to-next-to-leading order corrections which must be included. Using these results the approach then provides a safe, convenient, and unbiased way of comparing experiment to theoretical models which avoids any built-in model-dependent assumptions. We apply the method to three classes of perturbative Z′ boson benchmark models: E₆ models, left-right symmetric models, and sequential standard models. We generalize each class of model in terms of mixing angles which continuously parametrize linear combinations of pairs of generators and lead to distinctive orbits in the c_u−c_d plane. We also apply this method to the strongly coupled four-site benchmark model in which two Z′ bosons are predicted. By comparing the experimental limits or discovery bands to the theoretical predictions on the c_u−c_d plane, we show that the LHC at 7 TeV with integrated luminosity of 500  pb⁻¹ will greatly improve on current Tevatron mass limits for the benchmark models. If a Z′ is discovered our results show that measurement of the mass and cross section will provide a powerful discriminator between the benchmark models using this approach.

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Author: Alexander Belyaev

Author: Stefano Moretti

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