CHARGED HEAVY-LEPTON PRODUCTION IN SUPERSTRING-INSPIRED E(6) MODELS

The possibility of studying superstring-inspired E(6) phenomenology at high energy hadron colliders is investigated. A very simple low energ y rank-5 supersymmetric (N=1) model is considered, which consists of t hree Higgs scalars, H-i=1,2,3(0), two charged Higgs bosons, H--(+) one Higgs pseudoscalar, P-0, and an extra vector boson, the Z'. The produ ction of charged heavy lepton pairs L(+)L(-) by gluon-gluon fusion and the Drell-Yan mechanism is discussed. For gluon-gluon fusion an enhan cement in the parton level cross section is expected due to the heavy (s)fermion loops which couple to the gluons. This mechanism is expecte d to dominate over the Drell-Yan process for L(+)L(-) invariant masses above the Z' mass.