Abstract:
Fundamental particle physics research at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) has always included the use of highest-energy accelerator machines, and it is only natural that from its very beginning, the institute played an active role in work on developing, assembling, and upgrading both the Large Hadron Collider itself and its detectors. Along with providing hardware and software support to secure the failure-free operation of detectors and the gathering and processing of experimental data, JINR sets as its primary goal to effectively participate in the unprecedentedly comprehensive and important LHC research program. As part of this program, the experimental search for new heavy chiral $\rm Z^*$ and $\rm W^*$ bosons is carried out by the ATLAS collaboration, an effort whose necessity was fully justified and strategy exhaustively developed by JINR physicists. The search results from the first run of the LHC are briefly discussed, together with the decisive contribution from JINR and future prospects.
Keywords:$\rm Z^*$ boson, LHC, ATLAS, JINR, heavy boson, lepton.
PACS:12.15.-y, 12.60.-i, 13.85.-t, 14.80.-j
Received:July 6, 2015 Revised:August 25, 2015 Accepted: August 25, 2015
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