Probing the Higgs mechanism via gamma gamma ---> W+ W-

Nov, 1994
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 51 (1995) 4738-4745
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BI-TP-94-51,
  • UWITP-94-04

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Abstract:
We investigate the sensitivity of the reaction γγW +W \gamma\gamma\to W~+W~- to the Higgs sector based on the complete one-loop corrections in the minimal Standard Model and the gauged non-linear σ\sigma-model. While this sensitivity is very strong for the suppressed cross-section of equally polarized photons and longitudinal W bosons, it is only marginal for the dominant mode of transverse polarizations. The corrections within the σ\sigma-model turn out to be UV-finite in accordance with the absence of \log\MH terms in the Standard Model with a heavy Higgs boson.
  • photon photon: interaction
  • interaction: photon photon
  • W: pair production
  • pair production: W
  • W: photoproduction
  • photoproduction: W
  • Higgs particle: mass
  • mass: Higgs particle
  • correction: higher-order
  • sigma model: nonlinear