Sekulla, Marco: Anomalous couplings, resonances and unitarity in vector boson scatteringAnomale Kopplungen, Resonanzen und Unitarität in Vektorboson-Streuung. 2015
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Representations of the Standard Model
- 2.1. Basic Definitions
- 2.2. Nonlinear Realization of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
- 2.3 The Linear Matrix Representation
- 3. Effective Quantum Field Theories
- 3.1 Example: Fermi Theory
- 3.2 Effective Field Theory Operator Bases
- 3.3 Dimension Six Operators
- 3.4 Dimension Eight Operator set
- 3.5 Vector Boson Scattering at the LHC
- 3.6. The Goldstone Boson Scattering Amplitude
- 4. Unitarity
- 4.1. Crossing symmetry
- 4.2 Optical Theorem
- 4.3 Isospin Eigenamplitude
- 4.4. Unitarity Bound for Effective Operators
- 4.5 Unitarization
- 4.6 Physical Process
- 5. Resonances
- 5.1 Quantum Numbers
- 5.2 Isoscalar-Scalar Resonances
- 5.3. Isoscalar-Tensor Resonances
- 5.4 Isotensor-Scalar Resonances
- 5.5 Isotensor-Tensor Resonances
- 5.6 Physical Processes
- Conclusions
- Chapter A Mathematical Definitions
- A.1. SU(2) Algebra
- A.2. Legendre Polynomials
- A.3. Isospin Basis
- A.4. Details on T-Matrix Unitarization
- A.5. Dimension eight Operators in Eboli-Basis
- Chapter B Feynman-Rules
- Chapter C WHIZARD Implementation
- Bibliography