Extended Technicolor Signatures at the SSC

We consider signatures at SSC of Extended Technicolor models that contain only one doublet of techniquarks. In these models, the ETC gauge bosons carry color and can be produced in the gluon-gluon subprocess of pp collisions. We find that the predominant signal is the production and decay of bound states of ETC gauge bosons. The bound state levels are split by the hyperfine interaction and the color force. A major decay mode yields tfZ” in the final state. The bound states are expected to be narrow enough that one could observe their spectroscopy in this channel. For fi = 40 TeV, the cross section times branching ratio should be about 4 nb if the ETC boson mass is 1 TeV. The signal falls rapidly for larger masses due to the smaller effective gluon-gluon luminosity.