Can the Electroweak Symmetry-breaking Sector Be Hidden?

In a recent paper, Chivukula and Golden claimed that the electroweak symmetry– breaking sector could be hidden if there were many inelastic channels in the longitudinal W W scattering process. They presented a model in which the W 's couple to pseudo–Goldstone bosons, which may be difficult to detect experimentally. Because of these inelastic channels, the W W interactions do not become strong in the TeV region. We demonstrate that, despite the reduced W W elastic amplitudes in this model, the total event rate (∼ 5000 extra longitudinal W + W − pairs produced in one standard SSC year) does not decrease with an increasing number of inelastic channels, and is roughly the same as in a model with a broad high–energy resonance and no inelastic channels.