TESTING FOR A POSSIBLE STRONG-INTERACTING ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY-BREAKING SECTOR AT LHC AND SSC

We study gauge boson pair production at future hadron colliders in the presence of a strong interacting electroweak symmetry breaking sector. The calculations are carried out within the BESS model, with parameters limited from presented experiments as well as in view of future attainable LEP precisions. The fusion production mechanism via longitudinal WW scattering is compared to the qq annihilation mechanism going through vector resonance that is typical of the BESS model. The qq mechanism is found to be in general largely dominant at LHC, making the calculated event rates observable at the projected LHC energy and luminosity, for reasonable ranges of the BESS parameters. Detailed studies of background and statistical significance of signals versus background are made both at LHC and SSC. © 1990.