The width of the Z boson in composite models
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics
- Vol. 11 (7) , L115-L118
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4616/11/7/002
Abstract
It is shown that in simple composite models in which the Z is bound by hypercolour forces with a compositeness scale of the same order as its mass, then the decay width will almost certainly exceed current experimental limits.Keywords
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