Observing Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the SSC

Abstract

In this talk we survey the SSC signals and backgrounds for the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking. We study the process $pp\to WWX$ and compute the rate for the ``gold-plated'' signals $W^{\pm }\to {\ell }^{\pm }\nu$ and $Z\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ $(\ell =e,\mu )$ for a wide variety of models. We use a forward jet tag and central jet veto to suppress the standard-model backgrounds. In this way we estimate the SSC sensitivity to the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking. (Revised version contains style file ichep.sty.)

5 pages; JHU-TIPAC-920028; Talk given at the XXVI ICHEP, Dallas