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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 16: Beyond the Standard Model (Theorie) II

T 16.1: Talk

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 16:45–17:00, KGI-HS 1021

Warped Higgsless Weak Boson Fusion — •Christoph Englert and Dieter Zeppenfeld — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe

Warped Higgsless models provide an appealing approach to electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) that exhibit a specifically interesting phenomenology at the upcoming generation of colliders. At the LHC, particularly vector boson fusion (VBF) processes are sensitive to the mechanism of EWSB as they access longitudinal vector boson scattering via experimentally clear and distinct signatures, thus being potentially able to reveal the origin of EWSB in the near future. We present the VBF signatures of a typical Higgsless model with ideal fermion delocalization, focusing on gold- and silver-plated VBF channels at the LHC using a fully-flexible next-to-leading order QCD parton-level Monte-Carlo program.