Photon- and Z -induced heavy charged lepton pair production at a hadron supercollider

We investigate the pair production of charged heavy leptons via photon-induced processes at the proposed CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Using effective photon and Z approximations, rates are given for L⁺L^- production due to γγ fusion and Zγ fusion for the cases of inelastic, elastic, and semielastic pp collisions. These are compared with the corresponding rates for production via the gluon fusion and Drell-Yan mechanisms. Various γγ and Zγ differential luminosities for pp collisions are also presented.