Measuring Three Vector Boson Couplings in $qq\to qqW$ at the SSC
Abstract
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We investigate the electroweak process $qq\to qqW$, {\it i.e.} $W$ production via $Wγ$ and $WZ$ fusion, as a probe for nonstandard $WWγ$ and $WWZ$ vertices at hadron supercolliders. Triggering on events with one very forward and one very backward jet while requiring the $W$ decay lepton to be central, strongly enhances the triple gauge boson vertex contribution and suppresses backgrounds from QCD $Wjj$ events and $t\bar tj$ production below the signal level. At the SSC, the process is sensitive to $WWV$, $V=γ\, ,Z$ couplings $κ_V -1$, $λ_V$, and $g_1^Z$ in the $0.03\dots 0.1$ range.
latex (worldsci.sty file enclosed), 9 pages, 4 figures (uuencoded postscript figures in separate file), MAD/PH/789, FSU-HEP-930903, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop ``Physics at Current Accelerators and the Supercollider'', Argonne National Laboratory, June~2 --~5, 1993
latex (worldsci.sty file enclosed), 9 pages, 4 figures (uuencoded postscript figures in separate file), MAD/PH/789, FSU-HEP-930903, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop ``Physics at Current Accelerators and the Supercollider'', Argonne National Laboratory, June~2 --~5, 1993