Detection of intermediate vector bosons and high-energy weak interactions from decay of hadron resonances

Abstract

We discuss the detection of parity violating effects in the production of hadron resonances as a way to identify weak interactions at high energies. Numerical results indicate that such effects due to the production of W's and Z's should be observable at Isabelle energies. Observation of such effects may be the best method to establish that high-mass resonances or new behavior of cross sections are not hadronic in origin. By observing hadron resonances with different quantum numbers, it is possible to study the flavor dependence of high-energy weak effects; the energy dependence of the [phiv]/[pi] ratio may even be a useful signal of W production. We also calculate predictions for polarized beams. The possibility of observing unconventional kinds of weak interactions is briefly considered.