Discovering New Gauge Bosons of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at LHC-8

Chun Du, Hong-Jian He, Yu-Ping Kuang, Bin Zhang, Neil D. Christensen, R. Sekhar Chivukula, Elizabeth H. Simmons

Published 2012-06-26, updated 2012-10-08Version 2

We study the physics potential of the 8TeV LHC (LHC-8) to discover, during its 2012 run, a large class of extended gauge models or extra dimensional models whose low energy behavior is well represented by an SU(2)^2 x U(1) gauge structure. We analyze this class of models and find that with a combined integrated luminosity of 40-60/fb at the LHC-8, the first new Kaluza-Klein mode of the W gauge boson can be discovered up to a mass of about 370-400 GeV, when produced in association with a Z boson.