Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2001.

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Main Author: Uchida, Yoshi, 1971-
Other Authors: Peter H. Fisher.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8279
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spelling mit-1721.1/82792019-04-12T20:31:15Z Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II Uchida, Yoshi, 1971- Peter H. Fisher. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Physics. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52). W-Pair and Single-W production events are observed at LEP, the Large Electron Positron collider at CERN, using the L3 detector. All decay channels are considered, and data taken in the years 1998 and 1999, with electron-positron collision centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV are analysed. The integrated luminosity of the analysed data corresponds to approximately 400pb-1, and a total of approximately 5000 W-pair events and 100 single-W events are selected. The observed cross sections of these W production processes and the differential distributions of the event shapes are then used to measure the couplings of Wbosons with Z bosons and photons. Emphasis is placed on the unambiguous and efficient combination of the information from the different production and decay channels. For the couplings in the model in which gauge invariance is realised linearly, the following results are obtained ... where the errors shown are statistical, systematic and theoretical respectively. All results show consistency with expectations from the Standard Model. by Yoshiyuki Uchida. Ph.D. 2005-08-23T18:50:41Z 2005-08-23T18:50:41Z 2001 2001 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8279 50419833 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 52 leaves 5691961 bytes 5691723 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Uchida, Yoshi, 1971-
Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title_full Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title_fullStr Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title_full_unstemmed Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title_short Observations and measurement of W boson production and triple gauge couplings at LEP II
title_sort observations and measurement of w boson production and triple gauge couplings at lep ii
topic Physics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8279
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