1996/08/14 by Elizabeth H. Simmons, E. H. Simmons · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Flavor #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Higgs boson #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Octet #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Philosophy #Physics #Quark #Tevatron #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.55.1678
published as Phys. Rev. D 55, 1678 (1997) · 13 pages, 4 embedded Postscript figures, LaTeX, full postscript version also available at http://smyrd.bu.edu/htfigs/htfigs.html rectified confusing phrase at end of sub-section on 'dijets'
arxiv created 1996/08/14 · openalex publication_date 1997/02/01 · arxiv updated 2016/08/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A flavor-universal extension of the strong interactions was recently proposed in response to the apparent excess of high-ET jets in the inclusive jet spectrum measured at the Fermilab Tevatron. This paper studies the color octet of massive gauge bosons (``colorons'') that is present in the low-energy spectrum of the model's Higgs phase. Constraints from searches for new particles decaying to dijets and from measurements of the weak-interaction \ensuremathρ parameter imply that the colorons must have masses greater than 870--1000 GeV. The implications of recent Tevatron data and the prospective input from future experiments are also discussed.