Eur. Phys. J. C (1998) 1: 177-190
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245807

Anomalous three gauge boson couplings in e⁺e⁻ → W⁺W⁻ and “optimal” strategies for their measurement

¹ Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Silver Street, CB3 9EW, Cambridge, Great Britain
³ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Philosophenweg 16, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

Received: 31 January 1997
Revised: 14 April 1997
Published online: 27 February 2005

Abstract

We discuss how to measure anomalousWWZ- andWWγ-couplings with minimal statistical error using integrated observables, without having to assume that the anomalous couplings are small. We propose a parametrisation of these couplings which is well suited for the extraction of both single and many parameters, and which leads to a very simple form of the integrated cross section, from which additional information on the couplings can be obtained.