Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 55: 615-622
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0618-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

The new charged gauge boson W’ and the subprocess eq→νq’ at e⁺e^- and ep colliders

Department of Physics, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, P.R. China

^* e-mail: yuecx0707@163.com

Received: 20 January 2008
Revised: 4 March 2008
Published online: 17 May 2008

Abstract

In the framework of little Higgs models and the three-site Higgsless model, we discuss the contributions of the new charged gauge boson W’ to the process eq→νq’ and the possibility of detecting W’ via this process in future high energy linear e⁺e^- collider (ILC) and ep collider (THERA) experiments. Our numerical results show that the process eq→νq’ is rather sensitive to the coupling W’ff’, and one can use this process to distinguish different new physics models in future ILC and THERA experiments.