Neutral current interference in the TeV region: The experimental sensitivity at the CERN LHC

The possibilities to measure lepton forward-backward asymmetries at the CERN LHC in the reaction pp(q(i)q((i) over bar))-->l(+)l(-) are studied for dilepton events with masses above 400 GeV. It is shown that such measurements allow accurate tests of the neutral current interference structure up to about 2 TeV center-of-mass energies. The sensitivity of asymmetries at the LHC to new physics is demonstrated within the context of quark compositeness and exotic Z' scenarios.