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Probing Anomalous Quartic Couplings in e-gamma and gamma-gamma Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We analyze the potential of the e+e- Linear Colliders, operating in the e-gamma and gamma-gamma modes, to probe anomalous quartic vector--boson interactions through the multiple production of W's and Z's. We examine all SU(2)LU(1)YSU(2)_L \otimes U(1)_Y chiral operators of order p^4 that lead to new four--gauge--boson interactions but do not alter trilinear vertices. We show that the e-gamma and gamma-gamma modes are able not only to establish the existence of a strongly interacting symmetry breaking sector but also to probe for anomalous quartic couplings of the order of 10^{-2} at 90% CL. Moreover, the information gathered in the e-gamma mode can be used to reduced the ambiguities of the e+e- mode.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105238,
  title  = {Probing Anomalous Quartic Couplings in e-gamma and gamma-gamma Colliders},
  author = {O. J. P. Eboli and J. K. Mizukoshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105238},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Revtex, 18 pages, 6 figures