The lightest new gauge boson BH with mass of hundreds GeV is predicted in the littlest Higgs model. BH should be accessible in the planned ILC and the observation of such particle can strongly support the littlest Hig...The lightest new gauge boson BH with mass of hundreds GeV is predicted in the littlest Higgs model. BH should be accessible in the planned ILC and the observation of such particle can strongly support the littlest Higgs model. The realization of 7Y and e^-γ collisions would open a wider window to probe BH. In this paper, we study the new gauge boson BH production processes e^-γ→e^-BH and e^-γ→e^-BH at the ILC. Our results show that the production cross section of the process e^-γ→e^-BH is less than 0.1 fb in most parameter spaces allowed by the electroweak precision data while the cross section of the process e^-γ→e^-BH can be over one fb in the favorable parameter spaces. With the high luminosity, the enough typical signals could be produced via e^-γ→e^-BH. Because the final electron and photon beams can be easily identified and the signal can be easily distinguished from the backgrounds produced by Z and H decaying, e^-γ→e^-BH is a promising process to probe BH.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(10375017,10575029)
文摘The lightest new gauge boson BH with mass of hundreds GeV is predicted in the littlest Higgs model. BH should be accessible in the planned ILC and the observation of such particle can strongly support the littlest Higgs model. The realization of 7Y and e^-γ collisions would open a wider window to probe BH. In this paper, we study the new gauge boson BH production processes e^-γ→e^-BH and e^-γ→e^-BH at the ILC. Our results show that the production cross section of the process e^-γ→e^-BH is less than 0.1 fb in most parameter spaces allowed by the electroweak precision data while the cross section of the process e^-γ→e^-BH can be over one fb in the favorable parameter spaces. With the high luminosity, the enough typical signals could be produced via e^-γ→e^-BH. Because the final electron and photon beams can be easily identified and the signal can be easily distinguished from the backgrounds produced by Z and H decaying, e^-γ→e^-BH is a promising process to probe BH.