Gauge Interactions Involving New Vector and Pseudoscalar Particles
Abstract
The Vector gauge bosons Z' and axion-like particles (ALPs) a are predicted by the U(1)X gauge extension and Peccei-Quinn (PQ) models, respectively. We focus on the interactions of the Z' boson and the a particle with the W± gauge boson, and investigate the production cross section and related kinematic distributions for the Z'/a→ W+W- decay process at hadron colliders. We consider the angular distributions of charged leptons in the final states corresponding to the semileptonic and fully leptonic decays of the W± boson, separately. The study shows that, in the associated production processes of Z'/a with W+ or Z bosons, the angular distributions of final-state leptons can serve as an important observable for probing new gauge interactions, and can also provide a criterion to distinguish vector particles from pseudoscalar particles.
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BibTeX
@misc{xing2026gauge,
title = {{Gauge Interactions Involving New Vector and Pseudoscalar Particles}},
author = {Ruiyu Xing and Honglei Li and Zhi-Long Han and Fei Huang and Cui-Juan Lv and Xinyi Zhang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.22862},
eprint = {2610.22862},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22862},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Gauge Interactions Involving New Vector and Pseudoscalar Particles
AU - Ruiyu Xing
AU - Honglei Li
AU - Zhi-Long Han
AU - Fei Huang
AU - Cui-Juan Lv
AU - Xinyi Zhang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.22862
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22862
AB - The Vector gauge bosons Z' and axion-like particles (ALPs) a are predicted by the U(1)_X gauge extension and Peccei-Quinn (PQ) models, respectively. We focus on the interactions of the Z' boson and the a particle with the W^± gauge boson, and investigate the production cross section and related kinematic distributions for the Z'/a→ W^+W^- decay process at hadron colliders. We consider the angular distributions of charged leptons in the final states corresponding to the semileptonic and fully leptonic decays of the W^± boson, separately. The study shows that, in the associated production processes of Z'/a with W^+ or Z bosons, the angular distributions of final-state leptons can serve as an important observable for probing new gauge interactions, and can also provide a criterion to distinguish vector particles from pseudoscalar particles.
ER -