Neutral current interference in the TeV region: The experimental sensitivity at the CERN LHC

The possibilities to measure lepton forward-backward asymmetries at the CERN LHC in the reaction ${pp(q}_i\underset{¯}{q_i})\to l^{+}{l}^{-}$ are studied for dilepton events with masses above 400 GeV. It is shown that such measurements allow accurate tests of the neutral current interference structure up to about 2 TeV center-of-mass energies. The sensitivity of asymmetries at the LHC to new physics is demonstrated within the context of quark compositeness and exotic $Z^{\prime }$ scenarios.