Gauge-boson scattering signals at the LHC

Abstract

We have extended our earlier treatment of the gauge-boson scattering with radiative corrections in the standard model at supercollider energies, and computed the rates for gauge-boson scattering modes in $pp$ collisions leading to the final states $W^+W^-$, $ZZ(4l)$, $ZZ(2l2ν)$, $W^\pm Z$, and $W^\pm W^\pm $. Our results at the LHC \hbox{energy} of $\sqrt{s}=14$~TeV for $m_H=1000$~GeV are compared with those recently obtained by Bagger {\it et al.} These results will be useful in the search for the Higgs bosons at supercollider energies as well as for experimentally distinguishing the standard model from non-minimal Higgs models.

10 pages, 10 postscript figures, uses epsf.sty, to appear in Physical Review D