MEASURING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE W-BOSON IN HEAVY-ION COLLIDERS

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作者
CORNET, F
ILLANA, JI
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[1] Departamento de Física Terica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1705
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We discuss the possibility of measuring the magnetic dipole moment mu-W and the electric quadrupole moment Q(W) of the weak gauge bosons at heavy-ion colliders. This measurement amounts to a test of the gauge structure of the standard model. We show that the total cross section for W-pair production via gamma-gamma fusion is very sensitive to mu-W and Q(W), thus allowing a precise determination of their values.
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