Technihadron production and decay in low-scale technicolor
Abstract
We discuss the production and decay rates of the lightest color-singlet technihadrons, spin-one ρT and ωT and spin-zero πT, in a minimal ``straw-man'' model of low-scale technicolor. Because of walking technicolor enhancements of technipion masses, the decay channels ρT-->πTπT and ωT-->πTπTπT are likely to be closed. The largest decay modes then are ρT-->WπT,γπT and ωT-->γπT, while ρT, ωT-->l+l- offer low-rate but very clear signatures. The revised ρT and ωT decay rates to γπT presented here affect the technicolor searches planned for run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.075007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9903369
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvD..60g5007L
- Keywords:
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- 12.60.Nz;
- 14.80.Mz;
- Technicolor models;
- Axions and other Nambu-Goldstone bosons;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 32 pages, LaTeX, with 14 postscript figures. Programming error for technipion-pair production has been rectified, resulting in reduced rates for these processes only