Probing Quartic Couplings Through Three Gauge Boson Production at an $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Linear Collider

Abstract

We explore the capability of a 500 or 1000 GeV $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ linear collider to measure anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings. In the framework of a non-linear effective Lagrangian with a custodial $SU)2)$ symmetry, there are only two next-to-leading order operators which contribute to quartic, but not to two- and three- gauge boson interactions. The limits on the coefficients of these operators from present and future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders are compared with those available from other sources.

To appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on New Directions for High Energy Physics, Snowmass, CO, June 25-July 12, 1996; 4 pg, uses LATEX2e with epsfig and snow2e.cls