Axigluon production in hadronic collisions

Abstract

Recently proposed chiral-color models predict the existence of a massive color octet of vector bosons, the axigluon. In this paper we investigate axigluon production in hadronic collisions. We compute the single-jet inclusive cross section and the two-jet invariant-mass distribution for the CERN collider, the Fermilab Tevatron, and the Superconducting Super Collider. We use CERN data to exclude axigluon masses between 125 and 275 GeV, subject to a mild constraint on the width.