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On Theoretical Uncertainties of the W Angular Distribution in W-Pair Production at LEP2 Energies

R. Bruneliere, A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, S. Jadach, S. Jezequel, W. Placzek, M. Roth, M. Skrzypek, D. Wackeroth, B. F. L. Ward, Z. Was

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0201304

Abstract

We discuss theoretical uncertainties of the distribution in the cosine of the W polar angle projected into a measurement of the anomalous triple gauge-boson coupling λ=λγ=λZ at LEP2 energies for the tandem of the Monte Carlo event generators KoralW and YFSWW3 and for the Monte Carlo event generator RacoonWW. Exploiting numerical results of these programs and cross-checks with experimental fitting procedures, we estimate that the theoretical uncertainty of the value of λdue to electroweak corrections, as obtained at LEP2 with the help of these programs, is ~0.005, about half of the expected experimental error for the combined LEP2 experiments (~0.010). We use certain idealized event selections; however, we argue that these results are valid for realistic LEP2 measurements.

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