Heavy Charged Lepton Pair Production Through Photon Fusion at Hadron Supercolliders

Abstract

The pair production of charged heavy leptons via two photon fusion is considered for hadron collisions at SSC and LHC energies. Rates for the inelastic process $pp\to \gamma \gamma X\to L^{+}{L}^{-}X$ and the elastic process $pp\to \gamma \gamma pp\to L^{+}{L}^{-}pp$ are given in a Weizsäcker-Williams approximation and compared with production via the gluon fusion and Drell-Yan mechanisms

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the Madison-Argonne Workshop on Physics at Current Accelerators and the Supercollider, March - June 1993. 7 pages, Latex with epsfig and world_sci style files, 3 postscript figures embedded in the text, submitted as a uuencoded file. OCIP/C-93-12