Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-06-23
Phys.Rev.D80:055018,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
36 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.055018
We study the potential of the LHC and future low-energy experiments to precisely measure the underlying model parameters of a new Z' boson. We emphasize the complimentary information obtained from both on- and off-peak LHC dilepton data, from the future Q-weak measurement of the weak charge of the proton, and from a proposed measurement of parity violation in low-energy Moller scattering. We demonstrate the importance of off-peak LHC data and Q-weak for removing sign degeneracies between Z' couplings that occur if only on-peak LHC data is studied. A future precision measurement of low-energy Moller scattering can resolve a scaling degeneracy between quark and lepton couplings that remains after analyzing LHC dilepton data, permitting an extraction of the individual Z' couplings rather than combinations of them. We study how precisely Z' properties can be extracted for LHC integrated luminosities ranging from a few inverse femtobarns to super-LHC values of an inverse attobarn. For the several example cases studied with M_Z'=1.5 TeV, we find that coupling combinations can be determined with relative uncertainties reaching 30% with 30 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity, while 50% is possible with 10 fb^-1. With SLHC luminosities of 1 ab^-1, we find that products of quark and lepton couplings can be probed to 10%.
Li Ye
Petriello Frank
Quackenbush Seth
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