How to rule out Little Higgs (and constrain many other models) at the LHC

Abstract

In this talk I describe how to discover or rule out the existence of W^{prime} bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider as a function of arbitrary couplings and W^{prime} masses. If W^{prime} bosons are not found, I demonstrate the 95% confidence-level exclusions that can be reached for several classes of models. In particular, W^{prime} bosons in the entire reasonable parameter space of Little Higgs models can be discovered or excluded in 1 year at the LHC.

Talk given at the XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and Hadronic Interactions, 2003, 4 pg., latex, 5 ps figures