Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 60: 441-447
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0948-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Search for Stueckelberg Z′ at LHC

¹ Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
² Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, 17551, UAE

^* e-mail: wseman@cern.ch

Received: 23 December 2008
Revised: 8 February 2009
Published online: 24 February 2009

Abstract

We present the discovery potential for heavy Z′ gauge bosons in the Z′→e ⁺ e ⁻ decay channel at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis focuses on the direct search for the massive Z′ bosons predicted by the Stueckelberg extension of the Standard Model. Using signal and background simulated events, and taking into account the basic parameters of the Compact Muon Solenoid detector, the discovery reach for the Stueckelberg Z′ is found to be in the range between 800 and 900 GeV/c² for an integrated luminosity of 30 fb⁻¹.