LHC Analysis of the Strongly Interacting $WW$ System: Gold-Plated Modes

We study the gold-plated purely leptonic signal and background rates at the LHC for the $ZZ,$ $W^{+}{W}^{-},$ $W^{\pm }Z$ and $W^{\pm }{W}^{\pm }$ final states associated with strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking. We work at an energy of $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV, and develop a combination of back-to-back leptonic, central-jet-vetoing and forwaring cuts that suppresses the Standard-Model backgrounds. We find that the LHC with an annual luminosity of 100 fb${}^{-1}$ will achieve a reasonably good sensitivity to the physics of strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking.