HEAVY BOSON PRODUCTION VIA EP COLLISIONS AT CERN LEP AND LHC ENERGIES

We discuss the production of a heavy boson in deep inelastic e(-)p sca ttering in the context of the standard model SU(3)(C) X SU(2)(L) X U(1 ) of the strong and electroweak interactions at CERN LEP and LHC energ ies. We present results for the total and differential cross sections in terms of the parameters of the outgoing lepton. Ln addition to the gamma-exchange diagrams we have also considered the contributions of W +/- and Z(0) exchange. They are found to be non-negligible, especially for the process e(-)p --> nu(e)W(-)X. We also present results for the energy spectrum and the angular distribution of the produced Z(0). En ergy and angular distributions for Z(0) production are found to be str ongly peaked, which will allow a clear identification of the produced Z(0). [S0556-2821(98)02505-3].