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We study the production of $W^{\pm}$ and $Z$ gauge bosons in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions up to a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt s=0.5\ TeV$, in connection with the realistic possibility of having proton-deuteron collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 Claude Bourrely , Jacques Soffer

Same-sign $W$ boson pairs production is a promising channel to look for signatures of double parton interactions at the LHC. The corresponding cross section has been calculated by using double parton distribution functions, encoding two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-05 Federico Alberto Ceccopieri , Matteo Rinaldi , Sergio Scopetta

We perform the comprehensive analysis of the polarization effects on the e^+e^- -> W^+W^- process in the presence of the extra neutral gauge boson at the LC energies. Consideration of the polarizations of the produced W bosons and the beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Dong-Won Jung , Kang Young Lee , H. S. Song , Chaehyun Yu

The Moliere theory of multiple Coulomb scattering is modified to take into account difference between scattering off atomic nuclei and electron. A simple analytical expression for angular distribution of charged particles passing through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. I. Striganov

It has long been recognized that the scattering of electroweak particles at very high energies is dominated by vector boson fusion, which probes the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and offers a unique window into the ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Tao Han , Da Liu , Ian Low , Xing Wang

We review the salient features of next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the scattering of two and the production of three weak gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. Results for the tower of $O(\alpha_s^m\alpha^n)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Dittmaier

Laser-driven brilliant controllable polarized $\gamma$-photon sources open the way for designing compact $\gamma\gamma$ collider, which enable the large yield of linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pairs in a single shot and thus provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-30 Qian Zhao , Liang Tang , Feng Wan , Bo-Chao Liu , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui-Zhi Yang , Jin-Qing Yu , Xue-Guang Ren , Zhong-Feng Xu , Yong-Tao Zhao , Yong-Sheng Huang , Jian-Xing Li

We present the results of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that calculates the polarization produced by multiple Thomson scattering and variable absorptive opacity in a circumstellar disk around one component of a close detached binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jennifer L. Hoffman , Barbara A. Whitney , Kenneth H. Nordsieck

Investigating the polarization of weak bosons provides an important probe of the scalar and gauge sector of the Standard Model. This can be done in the Higgs decay to four leptons, whose Standard-Model leading-order amplitude enables to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Ezio Maina , Giovanni Pelliccioli

Spatial field correlation functions represent a key quantity for the description of mesoscopic phenomena in disordered media and the optical characterization of complex materials. Yet many aspects related to the vector nature of light waves…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-03 Kevin Vynck , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

The general structure of the cross section of $\gamma N$ scattering with polarized photon and/or nucleon in initial and/or final state is systematically described and exposed through invariant amplitudes. A low-energy expansion of the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 D. Babusci , G. Giordano , A. I. L'vov , G. Matone , A. M. Nathan

Weak vector boson scattering (VBS) at the LHC provides an excellent source of information on the structure of quartic gauge couplings and possible effects of physics beyond the SM in electroweak symmetry breaking. Parameterizing deviations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Genessis Perez , Marco Sekulla , Dieter Zeppenfeld

In the framework of the littlest Higgs($LH$) model, we study single production of the standard model($SM$) gauge boson $W_{s}^{-}$ and the heavy gauge boson $W_{H}^{-}$ via polarized $e^{-}\gamma$ collisions. We find that the corrections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Chong-Xing Yue , Feng Zhang , Li-Na Wang , Li Zhou

Longitudinal polarisation of the weak bosons is a direct consequence of Electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism providing an insight into its nature, and is instrumental in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. We perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu

This study investigates the polarization characteristics of solitonic boson stars surrounded by a thin accretion disk. By comparing their polarization images with corresponding optical images, we find a positive correlation between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , Hao Yu , Ke-Jian He

We present O(\alpha_s) results on the decays of polarized W^+- and Z bosons into massive quark pairs. The NLO QCD corrections to the polarized decay functions are given up to the second order in the quark mass expansion. We find a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-15 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , P. Tuvike

Using a multi-channel analysis of W_L W_L scattering signals, I study the LHC's ability to distinguish among various models of strongly interacting electroweak symmetry breaking sectors.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 William B. Kilgore

Fast-rotating Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are potential progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts, but observational verification is challenging. Spectral lines from their expanding stellar wind obscure accurate rotational velocity measurements.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Slah Abdellaoui , Jiří Krtička , Brankica Kubátová , Petr Kurfürst

Measurements of polarized electron-nucleon scattering can be realized at the TESLA linear collider facility with projected luminosities that are about two orders of magnitude higher than those expected of other experiments at comparable…

We compute the next-to-leading order corrections to the cross section for the production of electroweak gauge bosons ($Z$, $W^\pm$ and $\gamma^*$) with large transverse momentum in double (longitudinally) polarized hadronic collisions. The…

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