Measurement of charged current triple gauge boson couplings using WW pairs at LEP

Collaboration
Jul, 2003
28 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 33 (2004) 463-476
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2003-042
Experiments:

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Abstract:
Triple gauge boson couplings are measured from W-pair and single photon events recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at center-of-mass energies between 183 - 209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 680 inverse picobarns. Only CP-conserving couplings are considered and SU(2)xU(1) relations between the WWZ and the WWgamma couolings are used, resulting in four independent couplings. Each coupling is determined in a separate fit, assuming the other couplings to take their Standard Model values. Fits are also done allowing some of the couplings to vary simultaneously. The results are compared with the Standard Model predictions.
Note:
  • 27 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C Report-no: CERN-EP/2003-042
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • W: pair production
  • coupling: (3gauge boson)
  • invariance: CP
  • electroweak interaction: validity test
  • W: leptonic decay
  • W: hadronic decay
  • angular distribution
  • OPAL