Discovering Technicolor at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

Strategies are presented for discovering light, color-singlet technipions (pi_T) produced in association with a vector boson through s-channel technirho production, at the Tevatron and LHC. Signal and W+jets background were simulated including detector effects. Tagging of b-quarks from the pi_T -> bb decay is found to be important to reduce the W+jets background. Kinematic properties of signal and background events are significantly different and simple cuts can be used to further improve the signal to background ratio.

Comments: 4 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX; to appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study (Snowmass 1996)