Strongly interacting gauge boson systems at the LHC

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We explore the potential of the CERN-LHC to access strongly interacting gauge boson systems via weak-boson scattering processes with W+W-jj, ZZjj, W+Zjj and W-Zjj final states, focusing on the leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons.

• Cross sections and kinematic distributions for two representative scenarios of strong interactions in the weak sector and all relevant background processes are computed with fully-flexible parton-level Monte-Carlo programs that allow for the implementation of dedicated selection cuts.
• We find that models with new resonances give rise to very distinctive distributions of the decay leptons.
• The perturbative treatment of the signal processes is under excellent control.