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Triple Electroweak Gauge-Boson Production at Fermilab Tevatron Energies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We calculate the three gauge-boson production in the Standard Model at Fermilab Tevatron energies. At s=2\sqrt s=2 TeV in ppˉp\bar p collisions, the cross sections for the triple gauge-boson production are typically of order 10 femtobarns (fb). For the pure leptonic final states from the gauge-boson decays and with some minimal cuts on final state photons, the cross sections for ppˉW±γγ,Zγγp \bar p \rightarrow W^\pm \gamma\gamma, Z\gamma\gamma and W+WγW^+W^- \gamma processes are of order a few fb, resulting in a few dozen clean leptonic events for an integrated luminosity of 10 fb1^{-1}. The pure leptonic modes from other gauge-boson channels give significantly smaller rate. Especially, the trilepton modes from W+WW±W^+W^-W^\pm and ttˉW±W+WW±t \bar t W^\pm \rightarrow W^+W^-W^\pm yield a cross section of order 0.1 fb if there is no significant Higgs boson contribution. For a Higgs boson with mH2MZm_H^{} \simeq 2M_Z^{}, the triple massive-gauge-boson production rate could be enhanced by a factor of 464-6.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9507409,
  title  = {Triple Electroweak Gauge-Boson Production at Fermilab Tevatron Energies},
  author = {Tao Han and Ron Sobey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9507409},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX 3.0; 14 pages plus 7 figures; ps files available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ucdhep.ucdavis.edu/han/vvv/vvv.ps,fig*_vvv.ps