Strongly interactingWWsystem: Gold-plated modes

In this paper we survey the signals and backgrounds for a strongly interacting electroweak symmetry-breaking sector at hadron supercolliders in the TeV region. We study the process pp→WWX, and compute the rates for the "gold-plated" channels, where W^±→l^±ν and Z→l⁺l^-(l=e,μ), for a wide variety of models. Using a forward jet-tag, a central jet-veto, and a back-to-back lepton cut to suppress the standard model backgrounds, we demonstrate that the SSC and CERN LHC have substantial sensitivity to strong interactions in the electroweak symmetry-breaking sector.