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Latest results on anomalous gauge boson couplings with the ATLAS experiment

Contributions from new physics in the electroweak sector can be described in a model-independent way by anomalous gauge boson couplings in the framework of an effective field theory. Measurements of these parameters allow for the exclusion or discovery of contributions beyond the Standard Model. Exp...

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Autor principal: Schnoor, Ulrike
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2058821
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Sumario:Contributions from new physics in the electroweak sector can be described in a model-independent way by anomalous gauge boson couplings in the framework of an effective field theory. Measurements of these parameters allow for the exclusion or discovery of contributions beyond the Standard Model. Experimentally, electroweak triple gauge boson couplings have been accessible in di-boson production at the LHC and at previous colliders. More recently, the first measurements of triple gauge boson couplings in vector boson production through vector boson fusion have been achieved. The first observations of vector boson scattering and triple boson production processes have been made recently at the LHC, giving the possibility to measure quartic gauge boson interactions of electroweak vector bosons. These proceedings describe measurements at the ATLAS detector at the LHC in various channels which allow to set limits on anomalous triple and quartic gauge boson couplings. All measurements show good agreement with the predictions of the Standard Model.