Studies of the interactions of electroweak gauge bosons

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6281986

Burke, D L

Exploration of the electroweak interactions of quarks and leptons has ascended along the energy frontier for the past two decades, and has recently culminated in the elegant results obtained with the SLC and LEP electron-positron colliders operating at the Z{sup 0}. The SU(2) isospin symmetry of the fermion sector is nearly completely known. It remains to uncover the top quark, and determine the precise relationship between the electroweak eigenstates and those of the mass operator embodied in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa formalism. While our parameterization of the fermion sector of nature is becoming increasingly clear, we have no empirical knowledge of the interactions and possible structures of gauge bosons (with the exception, of course, of the massless photon). In this series of lectures we will review the origins of the interactions between gauge bosons that exist within the Standard Model, and explore signatures of new physics that might appear in the gauge-boson sector. Special attention will be given to pair-production of gauge bosons in e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} annihilation at center-of-mass energies above those available at LEP 2, and to scattering processes that could possibly be studied at very high energy e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} and hadron colliders in the next century. 31 refs., 38 figs.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 6281986
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-5418; CONF-900799--4; ON: DE91007593
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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645203* -- High Energy Physics-- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical-- Weak Interactions & Properties
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
ANNIHILATION
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CP INVARIANCE
CROSS SECTIONS
DECAY
DISTRIBUTION
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS
HIGGS BOSONS
INTERACTIONS
INTERMEDIATE BOSONS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
ISOSPIN
KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA MATRIX
LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATRICES
PAIR PRODUCTION
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUARKS
SCATTERING
STANDARD MODEL
SU GROUPS
SU-2 GROUPS
SYMMETRY BREAKING
SYMMETRY GROUPS
TOP PARTICLES
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL
Z NEUTRAL BOSONS