DECAYS OF A LEPTOPHOBIC GAUGE BOSON

We discuss the theory and phenomenology of decays of a leptophobic U(1 )(x) gauge boson X, such as has been proposed to explain the alleged d eviations of R(b) and R(c) from standard model predictions. If the sca lars involved in the breaking of the SU(2) x U(1) symmetry are suffici ently light, X will sometimes decay into a charged (or neutral) scalar along with an oppositely-charged W (or Z). These decay modes could yi eld clean signals for the leptophobic gauge bosons at hadron colliders and provide an interesting window into the Higgs sector of the theory .