W Z production at e gamma colliders and anomalous quartic WWZ gamma coupling


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Sahin İ.

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS, cilt.35, sa.3, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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We investigate the constraints on the anomalous quartic W+W- Z gamma gauge boson coupling through the process e(-)gamma -> v(e) W(-)Z. Considering incoming beam polarizations and the longitudinal and transverse polarization states of the final Wand Z boson we find 95% confidence level limits on the anomalous coupling parameter a(n) with an integrated luminosity of 500 fb(-1) and root s = 0.5, 1 TeV energies. We show that initial beam and final state polarizations improve the sensitivity to the anomalous coupling by up to factors of 2-3.5 depending on the energy.