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Search for trilinear neutral gauge boson couplings in Zγ production at √s=189 GeV at LEP

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>12/2000
<mark>Journal</mark>European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Issue number4
Volume17
Number of pages14
Pages (from-to)553-566
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=189 GeV by the OPAL detector at LEP are used to search for trilinear couplings of the neutral gauge bosons in the process e+e−→Zγ. The cross-sections for multihadronic events with an energetic isolated photon, and for events with a high energy photon accompanied by missing energy are measured. These cross-sections and the photon energy, polar angle and isolation angle distributions are compared to the Standard Model predictions and to the theoretical expectations of a model allowing for ZγZ and Zγγ vertices. Since no significant deviations with respect to the Standard Model expectations are found, constraints are derived on the strength of neutral trilinear gauge couplings.