Probing Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings at Colliders

Abstract

A direct measurement of the trilinear $WWγ$ and $WWZ$ couplings is possible in the pair production of electroweak bosons at $e^+e^-$ and hadron colliders. This talk addresses some of the theoretical issues: the parameterization of ``anomalous couplings'' in terms of form factors and effective Lagrangians, the complementary information which can be obtained in $e^+e^-$ vs. hadron collider experiments, and a novel way to implement finite $W$-width effects in a gauge invariant manner.

Talk given at the International Symposium on Vector Boson Self-Interactions, Feb. 1--3, 1995, UCLA, Los Angeles. Revtex 3.0, 14 pages. Uses epsf.sty to place 6 postscript figures. Compressed postscript file of text with figures at ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/madph-95-892.ps.Z or http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/madph-95-892.ps.Z