PRODUCTION OF STRONGLY INTERACTING W’s IN INELASTIC ELECTRON-NUCLEON COLLISIONSt

We consider the possibility of extending the search for the intermediate vector boson by observing the products of inelastic electron-nucleon collisions. If the W has mass less than 5.1 BeV/c’ and can interact strongly, then experiments at SLAC, which look for muons with large transverse momentum, should provide a sensitive probe to its existence. If the W is not observed in the proposed experiments, we can deduce stringent upper bounds on the W-nucleon cross section or conclude that if a strongly interacting W exists, it must have a mass in excess of 5.1 BeV/c2. (Submitted to Physical Review) t Work supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. * N. S. F. Predoctoral Fellow.