1998/10/31 by B. Dion, Thomas Grégoire, T. Gregoire +6 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Economics #Environmental science #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Production (economics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.075006
published as Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 075006 · 20 pages (LATEX), 7 figures, minor modifications
arxiv created 1998/11/27 · openalex publication_date 1999/03/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We examine, as model-independently as possible, the production of bileptons at hadron colliders. When a particular model is necessary or useful, we choose the 3-3-1 model. We consider a variety of processes: qq\ensuremath→Y++Y^\ensuremath-\ensuremath-, ud\ensuremath→Y++Y^\ensuremath-, \ifmmode u\else \=u\fi\stackrel\ensuremath→dY+Y^\ensuremath-\ensuremath-, qq\ensuremath→Y++e^\ensuremath-e^\ensuremath-, qq\ensuremath→\ensuremathφ++\ensuremathφ^\ensuremath-\ensuremath-, ud\ensuremath→\ensuremathφ++\ensuremathφ^\ensuremath-, and \ifmmode u\else \=u\fi\stackrel\ensuremath→d\ensuremathφ+\ensuremathφ^\ensuremath-\ensuremath-, where Y and \ensuremathφ are vector and scalar bileptons, respectively. Given the present low-energy constraints, we find that, at the Fermilab Tevatron, vector bileptons are unobservable, while light scalar bileptons (M_\ensuremathφ\ensuremath\lesssim300GeV) are just barely observable. At the CERN LHC, the reach is extended considerably: vector bileptons of mass MY\ensuremath\lesssim1TeV are observable, as are scalar bileptons of mass M_\ensuremathφ\ensuremath\lesssim850GeV.