English

Measuring WWZ and WWgamma coupling constants with Z-pole data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

Triple gauge boson couplings between Z, gamma and the W boson are determined by exploiting their impact on radiative corrections to fermion-pair production in e+e- interactions at centre-of-mass energies near the Z-pole. Recent values of observables in the electroweak part of the Standard model are used to determine the four parameters epsilon_1, epsilon_2, epsilon_3 and epsilon_b. In a second step the results on the four epsilon parameters are used to determine the couplings Delta-g^1_Z and Delta-kappa_gamma. For a wide range of scales, these indirect coupling measurements are more precise than recent direct measurements at LEP 2 and at the TEVATRON. The Standard model predictions agree well with these measurements.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902317,
  title  = {Measuring WWZ and WWgamma coupling constants with Z-pole data},
  author = {Peter Molnar and Martin W. Gruenewald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902317},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures