Production and detection of intermediate vector bosons and heavy leptons inppandp¯pcollisions

Abstract

Prospect for the discovery of the charged and neutral intermediate vector bosons in high-energy nucleon—(anti)nucleon collisions are examined. Theoretical arguments for the existence of intermediate bosons are reviewed and the anticipated properties are enumerated. Detailed calculations based on the Drell-Yan model are presented for the production cross sections and for the distributions of decay products. On the basis of these computations the requirement r experimental detectors are assessed.