Measurement of triple-gauge-boson couplings of the W boson at LEP

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作者
Achard, P [1 ]
Adriani, O
Aguilar-Benitez, M
Alcaraz, J
Alemanni, G
Allaby, J
Aloisio, A
Alviggi, MG
Anderhub, H
Andreev, VP
Anselmo, F
Arefiev, A
Azemoon, T
Aziz, T
Bagnaia, P
Bajo, A
Baksay, G
Baksay, L
Baldew, SV
Banerjee, S
Banerjee, S
Barczyk, A
Barillère, R
Bartalini, P
Basile, M
Batalova, N
Battiston, R
Bay, A
Becattini, F
Becker, U
Behner, F
Bellucci, L
Berbeco, R
Berdugo, J
Berges, P
Bertucci, B
Betev, BL
Biasini, M
Biglietti, M
Biland, A
Blaising, JJ
Blyth, SC
Bobbink, GJ
Böhm, A
Boldizsar, L
Borgia, B
Bottai, S
Bourilkov, D
Bourquin, M
Braccini, S
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[1] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[3] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] NIKHEF, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[5] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[6] CNRS, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[7] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[8] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[9] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[11] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bolonga, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[12] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[13] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[14] Inst Atom Phys, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[15] Univ Bucharest, R-76900 Bucharest, Romania
[16] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[17] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[18] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[19] Univ Debrecen, ATOMKI, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[20] Univ Coll Dublin, Dept Expt Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland
[21] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[23] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[24] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[25] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China
[26] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[27] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Nucl Phys, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[28] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[29] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[31] ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[32] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
[34] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, Nicosia, Cyprus
[35] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[36] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[37] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[38] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[39] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[40] Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia
[41] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[43] Univ Potenza, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
[44] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[45] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[46] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[48] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[50] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1016/j.physletb.2004.02.045
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
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.
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