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Vector boson scatterings are fundamental processes to shed light on the nature of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. Deviations from the Standard Model predictions on the corresponding observables can be interpreted in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Kozow , L. Merlo , S. Pokorski , M. Szleper

Precise and accurate Standard Model predictions are needed for polarised weak bosons in LHC processes, in order to perform template fits of data and to enhance the sensitivity to possible new-physics effects. We have proposed a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-09 Giovanni Pelliccioli

The Higgs discovery has given us the Higgs-gauge sector as a new handle to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. This includes physics scenarios originally linked to massive gauge boson scattering at high energies. We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Johann Brehmer , Joerg Jaeckel , Tilman Plehn

We study in an effective operator approach how the effects of new physics from various scenarios containing extra $Z'$ gauge bosons or doubly charged scalars can affect, and thus be tested by the precision polarized Moeller scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jackson Wu

We study in an effective operator approach how the effects of new physics from various scenarios that contain an extra $Z'$ neutral gauge boson or doubly charged scalars, can affect and thus be tested by the precision polarized M\o{}ller…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 We-Fu Chang , John N. Ng , Jackson M. S. Wu

Scattering polarized electrons provides an important probe of the weak interactions. Precisely measuring the parity-violating left-right cross section asymmetry is the goal of a number of experiments recently completed or in progress. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-11 Jens Erler , Charles J. Horowitz , Sonny Mantry , Paul A. Souder

We calculate the density matrix for the decay of a polarised top quark into a polarised W boson and a massive b quark, for the most general Wtb vertex arising from dimension-six gauge-invariant effective operators. We show that, in addition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , J. Bernabeu

We discuss results of the CMS collaboration on the sensitivity of the LHC to $W$ boson polarisation in the process $pp\to W^\pm + jet \to e^\pm jet+\not\!\!P_T$ using the $L_P$ variable directly connected to $\theta^*$ angle of the outgoing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Alexander Belyaev , Douglas Ross

The $Z$ boson in the process $pp \to ZH$ and the $W^+_{}$ and $W^-_{}$ in the process $pp \to W^{\pm}_{}H$ can be in polarised states. The polarisation density matrix of the $Z$ ($W$) boson contains the complete information about a state of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Junya Nakamura

We present a theoretical approach to investigate the scattering of polarized electrons from light nuclei using the multipole expansion for the scattering cross section within the framework of the unified electroweak theory. Scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Minh Truong Vo , Vu Dong Tran , Quang Hung Nguyen

We consider processes where an electroweak gauge boson ($W$ and $Z$) is produced in the decays of a heavy fermion. The polarization state of the produced gauge boson is given in terms of a vector polarization and a rank-2 tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-03 Arunprasath Velusamy , Ritesh K. Singh

Longitudinal weak gauge boson scattering has been well known as a powerful method to probe the underlying mechanism of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of the Standard Model. We point out that longitudinal weak gauge boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Kingman Cheung , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Yu-Kuo Hsiao , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The electroweak production processes of vector bosons, $e^+ e^- \rightarrow Z \gamma$, $\gamma e \rightarrow Ze$, and $\gamma e \rightarrow W \nu$ are considered simultaneousely and in the Standard model the covariant polarization density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. S. Shim , S. W. Baek , H. S. Song

We theoretically study the influence of laser polarization in inelastic scattering of electrons by hydrogen atoms in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field in the domain of field strengths below $10^{7}$ V/cm and high projectile…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Gabriela Buică

Measuring longitudinally polarised vector boson scattering in WW channel is a promising way to investigate unitarity restoration with the Higgs mechanism and to search for possible physics beyond the Standard Model. In order to perform such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-15 M. Grossi , J. Novak , B. Kersevan , D. Rebuzzi

The scattering cross section for a long-wavelength planar gravitational wave impinging upon a rotating black hole is calculated, for the special case in which the direction of incidence is aligned with the rotation axis. We show that black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-14 Sam R. Dolan

Massive star binaries are critical laboratories for measuring masses and stellar wind mass-loss rates. A major challenge is inferring viewing inclination and extracting information about the colliding wind interaction (CWI) region.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Richard Ignace , Andrew Fullard , Manisha Shrestha , Yael Naze , Kenneth Gayley , Jennifer L Hoffman , Jamie R Lomax , Nicole St-Louis

We study the polarization of an electron scattered by different static potentials. The initial state of the electron is chosen as a wavepacket to construct the definite orbital angular momentum, and the final polarization of the electron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Ren-Hong Fang

Vector boson scattering is (together with the production of multiple electroweak gauge bosons) the key process in the current run 2 of LHC to probe the microscopic nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. Deviations from the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Reuter , W. Kilian , T. Ohl , M. Sekulla

The anticipated experimental resolution and data cache of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will enable precision investigations of polarization in multiboson processes. This includes, for the first time, vector boson scattering. To…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-23 Diogo Buarque Franzosi , Olivier Mattelaer , Richard Ruiz , Sujay Shil