$WZ$ Production at $e\gamma$ Colliders and Anomalous Quartic $WWZ\gamma$ Coupling

Abstract

We investigate the constraints on the anomalous quartic $W^{+}W^{-}Z\gamma$ gauge boson coupling through the process $e^{-}\gamma\to \nu_{e}W^{-}Z$. Considering incoming beam polarizations and the longitudinal and transverse polarization states of the final W and Z boson we find 95% confidence level limits on the anomalous coupling parameter $a_{n}$ with an integrated luminosity of 500 $fb^{-1}$ and $\sqrt{s}$=0.5, 1 TeV energies. We show that initial beam and final state polarizations improve the sensitivity to the anomalous coupling by up to factors of 2 - 3.5 depending on the energy.