Measurement of triple-gauge-boson couplings of the W boson at LEP
Published in:
Physics Letters B 586,3-4 (2004) 151-166;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2004.02.045
Abstract
The CP-conserving triple-gauge-boson couplings, g(1)(Z), kappa(gamma), lambda(gamma), g(5)(Z), kappa(Z) and lambda(Z) are measured using hadronic and semi-leptonic W-pair events selected in 629 pb(-1) of data collected at LEP with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV. The results are combined with previous L3 measurements based on data collected at lower centre-of-mass energies and with the results from single-W production and from events with a single-photon and missing energy. Imposing the constraints kappa(Z) = g(1)(Z) - tan(2) thetaw(kappa(gamma) - 1) and lambda(Z) = lambda(gamma), we obtain for the C and P conserving couplings the results: g(1)(Z) = 0.966 +/- 0.033(stat) +/- 0.015(syst), kappa(gamma) = 1.013 +/- 0.066(stat) +/- 0.026(syst), lambda(gamma) = -0.021 +/- 0.035(stat) +/- 0.017(syst). Results from the analysis of fully leptonic W-pair decays are also given. All results are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations and confirm the existence of self-couplings among electroweak gauge bosons. (C) 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
monte-carlo program;; electroweak vector bosons;; (un)stable w+w production;; pair production;; e(+)e(-) collisions;; gamma couplings;; final-states;; trilinear couplings;; bhabha scattering;; root-s=1.8 tev
Date of this Version
January 2004