title: Rare exclusive hadronicWdecays in a [Formula: see text] environment.
abstract: The large cross section for [Formula: see text] production at the large hadron collider (LHC) and at any future hadron collider provides a high-statistics and relatively clean environment for a study ofWboson properties: after tagging on a leptonic decay of one of theWs and the twobjets, an additionalWstill remains in the event. We study the prospect of making the first exclusive hadronic decay of a fundamental boson of the standard model, using the decay modes [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], and other related decays. By using strong isolation criteria, which we impose by searching for jets with a single particle constituent, we show that the three-particle hadronicWdecays have potential to be measured at the LHC. The possibility of measuring an involved spectrum of decay products could considerably expand our knowledge of how theWdecays, and experimental techniques acquired in making these measurements would be useful for application to future measurements of exclusive hadronic Higgs boson decays.
authors.affiliation: TH Group, PH Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Michelangelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mangano
authors.affiliation: TH Group, PH Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Melia