The process e(+)e(-)-->W(+)W(-)gamma is analysed using the data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 176.8 pb(-1). Based on a sample of 42 selected W+W- candidates containing an isolated hard photon, the W(+)W(-)gamma cross section, defined within phase-space cuts, is measured to be: sigma(WW gamma) = 290 +/- 80 +/- 16 fb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Including the process e(+)c(-)-->upsilon<(upsilon)over bar>gamma gamma, limits are derived on anomalous contributions to the Standard Model quartic vertices W(+)W(-)gamma gamma and W(+)W(-)Z gamma at 95% CL: -0.043 GeV-2 < a(0)/Lambda(2) < 0.043 GeV-2, -0.08 GeV-2 < a(c)/Lambda(2) < 0.13 GeV-2, -0.41 GeV-2 < a(n)/Lambda(2) < 0.37 GeV-2. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Measurement of the W+W-gamma cross section and direct limits on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings at LEP / M. Acciarri, P. Achard, O. Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benitez, J. Alcaraz, G. Alemanni, J. Allaby, A. Aloisio, M. G. Alviggi, G. Ambrosi, H. Anderhub, V. P. Andreev, T. Angelescu, F. Anselmo, A. Arefiev, T. Azemoon, T. Aziz, P. Bagnaia, A. Bajo, L. Baksay, et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - ELETTRONICO. - 490:(2000), pp. 187-195. [10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00993-X]

Measurement of the W+W-gamma cross section and direct limits on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings at LEP

ADRIANI, OSCAR;BECATTINI, FRANCESCO;D'ALESSANDRO, RAFFAELLO;
2000

Abstract

The process e(+)e(-)-->W(+)W(-)gamma is analysed using the data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 176.8 pb(-1). Based on a sample of 42 selected W+W- candidates containing an isolated hard photon, the W(+)W(-)gamma cross section, defined within phase-space cuts, is measured to be: sigma(WW gamma) = 290 +/- 80 +/- 16 fb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. Including the process e(+)c(-)-->upsilon<(upsilon)over bar>gamma gamma, limits are derived on anomalous contributions to the Standard Model quartic vertices W(+)W(-)gamma gamma and W(+)W(-)Z gamma at 95% CL: -0.043 GeV-2 < a(0)/Lambda(2) < 0.043 GeV-2, -0.08 GeV-2 < a(c)/Lambda(2) < 0.13 GeV-2, -0.41 GeV-2 < a(n)/Lambda(2) < 0.37 GeV-2. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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M. Acciarri;P. Achard;O. Adriani;M. Aguilar-Benitez;J. Alcaraz;G. Alemanni;J. Allaby;A. Aloisio;M. G. Alviggi;G. Ambrosi;H. Anderhub;V. P. ...espandi
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