Speaker
Lorenzo Basso
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - STFC)
Description
We present the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovery potential in the Z' sector of a U(1)_{B-L} enlarged Standard Model (that also includes three heavy Majorana neutrinos and an additional Higgs boson) for sqrt{s}=7 and 14 TeV centre-of-mass (CM) energies, considering both the Z'_{B-L} -> e+e- and Z'_{B-L} -> µ+µ- decay channels.
The run of the LHC at sqrt{s}=7 TeV, assuming at most ∫L ~ 1 fb-1, will be able to give similar results to those that will be available soon at the Tevatron in the lower mass region, and to extend them for a heavier M_{Z'}. Finally, the run at 14 TeV is needed to fully probe the parameter space and its potential is comparable in scope to that of a future TeV scale Linear Collider (LC).
If no evidence is found in any energy configuration, 95% C.L. limits can be determined, and, given their better resolution, the limits from electrons will always be more stringent than those from muons.
Primary author
Mr
Lorenzo Basso
(NExT Institute (University of Southampton and PPD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC))
Co-authors
Dr
Alexander Belyaev
(NExT Institute (University of Southampton and PPD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC))
Dr
Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous
(PPD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC)
Mr
Giovanni Pruna
(NExT Institute (University of Southampton and PPD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC))
Prof.
Stefano Moretti
(NExT Institute (University of Southampton and PPD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC))
