Z(0)-BOSON AND DILEPTON PRODUCTION IN ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

We investigate the production of Z0 bosons in heavy-ion collisions at LHC and SSC energies. Different elementary production mechanisms incor porating quarks, gluons, and photons are considered and implemented in to the employed parton model. A geometrical heavy-ion collision model as well as the Weizsacker-Williams method are utilized to extrapolate from hadronic cross sections to total nuclear cross sections for centr al and peripheral Pb-208-Pb-208 collisions. The detection of the produ ced Z0 bosons should proceed via their decay into dileptons.