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Constraining anomalous gauge boson couplings in $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-$ using polarization asymmetries with polarized beams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the anomalous W+WVW^+W^-V (V=γ,ZV=\gamma,Z) couplings in e+eW+We^+e^-\to W^+W^- using the complete set of polarization observables of WW boson with longitudinally polarized beams. We use most general Lorentz invariant form factors parametrization as well as SU(2)×U(1)SU(2)\times U(1) invariant dimension 66 effective operators for the effective W+WVW^+W^-V couplings. We estimate simultaneous limits on the anomalous couplings in both the parametrizations using cross section, forward backward asymmetry and polarization observables of WW boson with different kinematical cuts using Markov-Chain--Monte-Carlo (MCMC) method for an e+ee^+e^- collider running at centre of mass energy of s=500\sqrt{s}=500 GeV and L=100{\cal L}=100 fb1^{-1}. The best limits on form factors are obtained to be 15×1021 \sim 5 \times 10^{-2} for ee^- and e+e^+ polarization being (+0.4,0.4)(+0.4,-0.4). For operator's coefficients, the best limits are obtained to be 1161\sim 16 TeV2^{-2}.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04551,
  title  = {Constraining anomalous gauge boson couplings in $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-$ using polarization asymmetries with polarized beams},
  author = {Rafiqul Rahaman and Ritesh K. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04551},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Version 2, 16 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables