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We investigate the radiation amplitude zeros exhibited by many Standard Model amplitudes for triple weak gauge boson production processes. We show that $WZ\gamma$ production amplitudes have especially rich structure in terms of zeros, these…
A comparative study of amplitude zeros in $W\gamma$ and $WZ$ production in hadronic collisions is presented. The Standard Model amplitude for $q_1 \bar q_2 \rightarrow W^\pm Z $ at the Born-level is shown to exhibit an approximate zero…
Standard radiation zeros arise from the factorization properties of tree-level amplitudes involving a massless photon and can occur when all charged particles in the initial and final state have the same sign. We investigate how several…
We discuss radiation zeros that are found in gauge tree amplitudes for processes involving multi-photon emission. Previous results are clarified by examples and by further elaboration. The conditions under which such amplitude zeros occur…
The cross section for producing $WZ$ pairs at hadron colliders is calculated to order $\alpha_s$ for general $C$ and $P$ conserving $WWZ$ couplings. The effects of the next-to-leading-order corrections on the derived sensitivity limits for…
In the light of recent experimental observation of the radiation amplitude zero (RAZ) in W\gamma production by CDF at Fermilab, we consider its consequences. is the RAZ unique to the standard model? Although it is not for neutrino-electron…
Multi-boson productions can be exploited as novel probes either for standard model precision tests or new physics searches, and have become one of those popular topics in the ongoing LHC experiments, and in future collider studies,…
The vanishing of the cross section for particular points in phase space - radiation zeros - is examined for the process $ q \bar q \to W^+W^- \gamma$ at high energy. For photon energies that are not too large, the cross section does exhibit…
Recent developments in the study diboson production at the Tevatron are reviewed. These include indications at the 2.6 sigma level for a radiation amplitude zero in the W gamma process at D0 and a 4.4 sigma signal for ZZ production in…
The vanishing of the cross section for particular points in phase space - radiation zeros - is examined for the process $ q \bar q \to W^+W^- \gamma$ at high energy. Unlike the process $q \bar q' \to W^\pm \gamma$, actual zeros only occur…
We study possible deviations from the standard model in the reaction $\gamma e\rightarrow Ze$ at a 500 GeV $e^+e^-$ collider. As a photon source we use a laser backscattered photon beam. We investigate the most general $\gamma Z\gamma$ and…
Propagation of particles with emission of arbitrary number of identical bosons all being at rest is considered. It is shown that in certain models the tree-level amplitudes for production of $n$ scalar bosons by two incoming particles are…
A detailed analysis of ZZ production at the upgraded Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider is presented for general ZZZ and ZZ\gamma couplings. Deviations from the Standard Model gauge theory structure for each of these can…
We celebrate two birthdays connected with the radiation zero phenomenon. First, a striking dip in the theoretical angular distributions of radiative weak-boson production was discovered twenty years ago. The key experimental interest is…
We study polarized $e^-e^-$ scattering into $\WW$, $\WZ$ and $\ZZ$ final states within the framework of the standard model of electroweak interactions. These mechanisms for producing pairs of weak gauge bosons are potential backgrounds to…
Radiative W production at hadron colliders is an important testing ground for the Standard Model. We consider W gamma gamma production which is sensitive to the quartic WW gamma gamma coupling. Furthermore the Standard Model amplitude for…
Single $W$-boson production in $e^-\gamma$ collisions with polarized beams is investigated. Helicity amplitudes for general couplings are derived and their properties are discussed. The results are applied to the Standard Model (SM) and the…
We calculate the gauge-boson pairs $W^-Z$, $W^-\gamma$, $W^+W^-$, $ZZ$ productions in the $e^- \gamma$ collisions, where the photon beam is realized by the laser back-scattering method. These processes are important tests for the…
We demonstrate that the Standard Model amplitude for $f_1 \bar f_2 \rightarrow W^\pm Z $ at the Born-level exhibits an approximate zero located at $\cos\theta = (g^{f_1}_{-} + g^{f_2}_{-}) / (g^{f_1}_{-} - g^{f_2}_{-})$ at high energies,…
Weak boson scattering processes provide particularly promising means for gaining insight into the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking at hadron colliders. Being very sensitive to interactions in the weak gauge boson sector, they will…