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Title

Probing W-gamma Couplings Using gamma gamma-->W+W-
Author

Eran Yehudai
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Journal / Anthology

Physical Review D
Year: 1991
Volume: 44
Issue: 11
Page range: 3434-3444
Description

We examine the process gamma gamma -> W+W- in context of a gamma gamma collider constructed by backscattering laser light off the electron bems of a 500-GeV e+e- collider. We present analytic formulas for the helicity amplitudes with general kappa and lambda anomalous couplings. We calculate the effective cross section, accounting for the photon spectrum and including polarization effects. Finally, we assess the sensitivity of this experiment, and compare with those of other experiments running at a comparable energy.
Subjects

*Science > Physics > Nuclear and Particle Physics
*Science > Physics > Quantum Physics