Collider Searches for Fermiophobic Gauge Bosons

Abstract

We explore the phenomenology of an extra U(1) gauge boson which primarily couples to standard model gauge bosons. We classify all possible parity-odd couplings up to dimension 6 operators. We then study the prospects for the detection of such a boson at the LHC and show that the electroweak decay channels lead to very clean signals, allowing us to probe couplings well into the TeV scale.

11 pages, 7 figures, PDFLaTeX; clarifications added, results unchanged

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