Bosonic quartic couplings at CERN LHC

We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study anomalous quartic vector-boson interactions Z Z gamma gamma, Z Z Z gamma, W+ W- gamma gamma, and W+ W- Z gamma through the weak boson fusion processes q q -> q q gamma gamma and q q -> q q gamma Z(-> l+ l-) with l = e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Éboli, O. J. P. (Oscar José Pinto), González García, Ma. Concepción, Lietti, S. M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/12515
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/12515
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Partícules (Física nuclear)
Bosons
Acceleradors de partícules
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Particle accelerators
Descripción
Sumario:We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study anomalous quartic vector-boson interactions Z Z gamma gamma, Z Z Z gamma, W+ W- gamma gamma, and W+ W- Z gamma through the weak boson fusion processes q q -> q q gamma gamma and q q -> q q gamma Z(-> l+ l-) with l = electron or muon. After a careful study of the backgrounds and how to extract them from the data, we show that the process p p -> j j gamma l+ l- is potentially the most sensitive to deviations from the Standard Model, improving the sensitivity to anomalous couplings by up to a factor 10^4 (10^2) with respect to the present direct (indirect) limits.