abstract:
I discuss the production of heavy Z' bosons at the LHC, as predicted in
GUT-inspired theories, as well as in the Sequential Standard Model.
Supersymmetric Z' decay modes are accounted for, besides the
Standard Model channels so far investigated, pointing out the
new features of the MSSM once the extra Z' boson is included.
Special care is taken about decays into slepton, chargino and neutralino pairs, leading to final states with leptons and missing energy. I will present the Z' branching ratios into BSM channels for several points in the U(1)'/MSSM parameter space and investigate the impact which the inclusion of the supersymmetric channels may possibly have on the Z' mass exclusion limits.
