Signals of additional Z' boson in e+e- to W+W-

by Ms Monalisa Patra (Indian Institute of Science)

Thursday 23 Jun 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Room 149 (LPSC)

I will discuss the possibility of fingerprinting the presence of heavy additional Z′ bosons that arise naturally in extensions of the standard model , through their mixing with the standard model Z boson. By considering a class of observables including total cross sections, energy distributions and angular distributions of decay leptons, a significant deviation from the standard model predictions is observed for these quantities with right-handed electrons and left-handed positrons at higher centre of mass energies. I will further discuss how this process complements the study of fermion pair production processes that have been considered for discrimination between different models.