Polarization to Probe an Extra Neutral Gauge Boson at e^+e^- Linear Collider

TL;DR

This paper investigates how polarized electron-positron collisions at a linear collider can be used to detect and characterize an extra neutral gauge boson ($Z'$), focusing on its couplings and mass range.

Contribution

It introduces a method using polarized observables to set model-independent limits and determine $Z'$ couplings and masses with high precision at a linear collider.

Findings

Polarized observables effectively constrain $Z'$ couplings.

Expected experimental accuracy allows distinguishing different $Z'$ models.

The approach provides bounds on $Z'$ mass and couplings in absence of signals.

Abstract

The sensitivity to the $Z^\prime$ couplings of the processes $e^+e^-\to l^+l^-,\bar{b}b$ and $\bar{c}c$ at the linear collider with $\sqrt{s}=500 GeV$ with initial beam polarization, for typical extended model examples are studied. To this aim, the suitable integrated, polarized, observables directly related to the helicity cross sections that carry information on the individual $Z^\prime$ chiral couplings to fermions are used. We discuss the derivation of separate, model-independent limits on the couplings in the case of no observed indirect $Z^\prime$ signal within the expected experimental accuracy. In the hypothesis that such signals were, indeed, observed we assess the expected accuracy on the numerical determination of such couplings and the consequent range of $Z^\prime$ masses where the individual models can be distinguished from each other as the source of the effect.