Electroweak corrections to WWZ and ZZZ production at the linear collider

TL;DR

This paper calculates electroweak corrections to WWZ and ZZZ production at a linear collider, revealing new features in distributions crucial for understanding gauge boson couplings and symmetry breaking.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed electroweak correction calculations for WWZ and ZZZ production, highlighting features not captured by simple scaling.

Findings

Weak corrections significantly affect kinematic distributions.

Corrections reveal new features beyond overall scale factors.

Implications for probing gauge boson couplings and symmetry breaking.

Abstract

We calculate the electroweak corrections to the production of WWZ and ZZZ at the linear collider in the Standard Model. These processes are important for the extraction of the quartic couplings of the massive gauge bosons which can be a window on the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. We find that the weak corrections to some kinematic distributions show new features and hence cannot be explained by an overall scale factor.