Photon and Z induced heavy charged lepton pair production at a hadron supercollider

Abstract

We investigate the pair production of charged heavy leptons via photon-induced processes at the proposed CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Using effective photon and Z approximations, rates are given for $L^+L^-$ production due to $γγ$ fusion and $Z γ$ fusion for the cases of inelastic, elastic and semi-elastic $pp$ collisions. These are compared with the corresponding rates for production via the gluon fusion and Drell-Yan mechanisms. Various $γγ$ and $Z γ$ differential luminosities for $pp$ collisions are also presented.