CERN LHC ANALYSIS OF THE STRONGLY INTERACTING WW SYSTEM - GOLD-PLATEDMODES

We study the gold-plated purely leptonic signal and background rates a t the CERN, LHC for the ZZ, W+W-, W(+/-)Z, and (WW+/-)-W-+/- final sta tes associated with strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking . We work at an energy of root s = 14 TeV, and develop a combination o f back-to-back leptonic, central-jet-vetoing and forward-jet-tagging c uts that suppresses the standard-model backgrounds. We find that the L HC with an annual luminosity of 100 fb(-1) will achieve a reasonably g ood sensitivity to the physics of strongly interacting electroweak sym metry breaking.