| Abstrakt: |
We discuss the observability at LHC or SSC of anomalous 3-boson and 4-boson couplings generated by the SU(2)c preserving operator O. We compute the invariant mass distribution of vector boson pair production via q $$\bar q$$ annihilation and via boson-boson fusion, for all possible channels. both these mechanisms are found to give comparable contributions for SSC and LHC, irrespective of whether O exists or not. We find that the channels WZ and Wγ are particularly suitable for studying whether O really appears in nature, and conclude that an upper limit on the strength of such an interaction which is better than |λ|<0.01, should be achievable. This will make a considerable improvement as compared to the indirect limits presently available from LEP1 (|λ|<0(1)), and expected from LEP2 (|λ|<0(0.1)). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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