1. Limits on AnomalousWWγCouplings frompp¯→Wγ+XEvents at√s=1.8TeV
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B. Baldin, Y. Ducros, J. B. Singh, S. Youssef, Robert J. McCarthy, A. Sanchez-Hernandez, D.R. Green, J. Balderston, Eunil Won, Victor Daniel Elvira, M. Nicola, P. Bloom, N. I. Bojko, Yu. Pischalnikov, M. A. Shupe, J. S. Hoftun, J. N. Butler, P. D. Grannis, H. Piekarz, M. Bhattacharjee, Bobby Samir Acharya, Gordon Watts, J. M. Hauptman, B. May, Peter Nemethy, V. Sirotenko, O. V. Eroshin, V. A. Bezzubov, A. Jonckheere, J. P. Negret, Stephan Linn, Andrew White, H. L. Melanson, P. Z. Quintas, R. P. Smith, H. A. Neal, H. C. Shankar, N. Oshima, S. K. Kim, Phillip Gutierrez, Daria Zieminska, B. Gobbi, J. H. Christenson, M. H.G. Souza, J. F. Lebrat, Matthew Jones, S. M. Chang, Howard Gordon, G. Eppley, H. da Motta, J. G.R. Lima, K. C. Frame, Heriberto Castilla-Valdez, A. V. Kotwal, Harrison Prosper, M. Abolins, O. Ramirez, H. E. Montgomery, A. S. Ito, G.E. Forden, M. Goforth, G. Álvarez, L. T. Kerth, Q. Z. Li-Demarteau, P. Mooney, J. Kotcher, S. P. Denisov, D. Stewart, F. Lobkowicz, N. Parua, Randy Ruchti, N. Graf, Sebastien Jonathan Kahn, S. N. Gurzhiev, P. Yamin, N. K. Mondal, K. Streets, Vipin Bhatnagar, H. T. Diehl, M. R. Krishnaswamy, T. Rockwell, Iain Alexander Bertram, C. S. Mishra, C. Klopfenstein, R. Partridge, H. Singh, S. Lami, J. Krane, G. Griffin, Michael Rijssenbeek, J. M. Guida, P.F. Ermolov, A. Boehnlein, F. Hsieh, S. Mani, H. S. Mao, D. L. Adams, P. M. Sood, Vasken Hagopian, R. Astur, V. S. Burtovoi, A. Para, H. Weerts, Dhiman Chakraborty, J. Ellison, Sergey Chekulaev, J. Bendich, V. N. Evdokimov, D.S. Koltick, Meenakshi Narain, A. Klatchko, Lev Dudko, J. T. Linnemann, R. W. Stephens, S. Fuess, J. T. White, R. Madden, M. Chung, L. Rasmussen, L. Lueking, I. Adam, Quing Zhu, T. Heuring, Peter W. Draper, W. M. Smart, S. Glenn, Pushpalatha C Bhat, M. Mudan, R. J. Madaras, D. P. Stoker, G. Wang, Alberto Santoro, K. Del Signore, H. Haggerty, K. W. Merritt, J. McKinley, D. A. Stoianova, Wagner Carvalho, A. Narayanan, T. G. Trippe, D. Buchholz, A. L. Spadafora, P. I. Goncharov, J. F. Bartlett, B. Lauer, B. Hoeneisen, Lee Sawyer, Hiroaki Aihara, Robert Kehoe, P. Tamburello, Heng Xu, Cecilia Elena Gerber, Sharon Hagopian, W. Guryn, M. Sosebee, A. K.A. Maciel, Anna Goussiou, S. Fahey, Yanwen Liu, P. M. Tuts, G. P. Grim, J. Jaques, D. Hedin, Hui Li, J. A. Wightman, A. M. Smith, A. Leflat, Robert Hirosky, Y. M. Park, Robert Snihur, Jianming Qian, D. Vititoe, R. J. Genik, J. Bantly, Gregory R Snow, J. Womersley, K. Bazizi, M. Demarteau, W. Y. Chen, Gilvan Alves, M. L. Kelly, George R. Kalbfleisch, W. G. Cobau, M. I. Martin, J. S. Kang, Y. Fisyak, Paolo Franzini, V. S. Narasimham, Tong Hu, C. Boswell, J. Featherly, L. Markosky, A. A. Mayorov, Joan A. Guida, S. Abachi, E. G. Zverev, Andrew Brandt, R. Engelmann, Liu Chen, Brajesh C Choudhary, V. Glebov, Marvin Johnson, A. L. Lyon, M. K. Fatyga, T. Joffe-Minor, C. Yanagisawa, J. Snow, N. Sotnikova, G. Di Loreto, H.E. Miettinen, Suman Bala Beri, A. V. Kozelov, H. E. Fisk, J. Solomon, D. Denisov, J. McDonald, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Thomas Ferbel, D. Edmunds, C. Cretsinger, M. Strovink, E. James, B. I. Klochkov, Andre Sznajder, M. D. Peters, Shuichi Kunori, K. A. Johns, L. Oesch, P. Robinov, S. Banerjee, V. Balamurali, C. T. Murphy, C. K. Jung, T. McKibben, Alexander Vorobiev, S. Reucroft, C. Yoshikawa, B. G. Pope, Elizaveta Shabalina, P. Grudberg, Y. E. Gutnikov, J. Kourlas, Q. Liu, John Hobbs, Young-Sang Yu, N. A. Roe, D. Pušeljić, E. Flattum, A. Bischoff, A. V. Kostritskiy, Sissel Hansen, G. Guglielmo, E. W. Anderson, V. Oguri, Allen Mincer, T.R. McMahon, M. Paterno, M. L. Stevenson, J. Warchol, P. Padley, Alexey Volkov, James H Cochran, Mitchell Wayne, H. Schellman, J. M. Kohli, Stefan Grünendahl, J. Thompson, B. Gómez, Z. H. Zhu, Shashikant Dugad, Elizabeth Gallas, H. Jostlein, R. Hernández-Montoya, H. Lan, A. N. Galyaev, G. Finocchiaro, H. D. Wahl, W. E. Cooper, Daniel R Claes, E. Amidi, T. Yasuda, J. V.D. Wirjawan, Allan G Clark, P. Gartung, M.K. Fatyga, C. L. Kim, Jong-Sung Yu, L. Magaña-Mendoza, N.V. Mokhov, Raymond Brock, Boaz Klima, D. Norman, S. Willis, M. Pang, A. P. Heinson, K. S. Hahn, D. Cutts, Greg Landsberg, R. E. Hall, T. L. Geld, J. L. González Solís, E. Oltman, F. Borcherding, M. M. Baarmand, Sarah Catherine Eno, S. Krzywdzinski, Sándor Lökös, J. Yang, Vyacheslav Klyukhin, V. I. Kochetkov, F. Nang, Richard B. Lipton, Ying Li, A. Baden, G. C. Blazey, R. Yamada, A. Zylberstejn, S. H. Ahn, V. M. Podstavkov, H. Greenlee, Orin I. Dahl, John Rutherfoord, Mary Beth Adams, M. Fortner, James C. Green, A. Bross, J. Perkins, Alexander Belyaev, Serban Protopopescu, Ulrich Heintz, M. Diesburg, D. Owen, S. Choi, J. Tarazi, N. Grossman, J. Borders, Gervasio Gomez, T. Huehn, C. Shaffer, D. Cullen-Vidal, A. Goldschmidt, N. N. Biswas, D. Fein, S. Chopra, J. Z.Y. Jiang, Don Lincoln, Erich Varnes, J. M. De Miranda, L. T. Goss, Jing Li, B. Gibbard, E. A. Kozlovski, J. Sculli, Nikos Varelas, R. K. Shivpuri, D. Nesic, S. A. Jerger, R. D. Schamberger, S. C. Loken, J. Drinkard, T. Fahland, M. Tartaglia, S. Feher, Ting Hu, Kaushik De, A. Zieminski, P. A. Rapidis, S. Y. Jun, T. L.T. Thomas, D. Casey, S. H. Aronson, P. Yepes, K. Genser, Rajendran Raja, Brad Abbott, N. Amos, Stephen Wimpenny, M. A. C. Cummings, T. Marshall, Darien Wood, Nicholas John Hadley, S. Blessing, Scott Snyder, and R. Markeloff
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Massless particle ,Physics ,Coupling ,Particle physics ,Gauge boson ,Branching fraction ,Particle model ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Elementary particle ,Standard Model ,Boson - Abstract
We have measured the $\mathrm{WW}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ gauge boson coupling parameters using $p\overline{p}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\gamma}+X$ ( $\ensuremath{\ell}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}e,\ensuremath{\mu}$) events at $\sqrt{s}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}1.8$ TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $92.8{\mathrm{pb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$, were collected using the D\O{} detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The measured cross section times branching ratio for $p\overline{p}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}W\ensuremath{\gamma}+X$ with ${p}_{T}^{\ensuremath{\gamma}}g10$ GeV/c and ${R}_{\ensuremath{\ell}\ensuremath{\gamma}}g0.7$ is ${11.3}_{\ensuremath{-}1.5}^{+1.7}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1.5$ pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction. The 1 degree of freedom 95% confidence level limits on individual CP-conserving parameters are $\ensuremath{-}0.93l\ensuremath{\Delta}\ensuremath{\kappa}l0.94$ and $\ensuremath{-}0.31l\ensuremath{\lambda}l0.29$. Similar limits are set on the CP-violating coupling parameters.
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- 1997