
arXiv: hep-ph/9505252
Quartic vertices provide a window into one of the most important problems in particle physics; the understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking. I survey the various processes that have been proposed to study quartic gauge boson couplings at future $e^+e^-$, $e��$, $����$, $e^-e^-$, and $pp$ colliders. For the lowest dimension operators that do not include photons, it appears that the LHC will provide the most constraining measurements. However, precision measurements at high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders involving $W^+W^-$ rescattering are also quite sensitive to the effects of a strongly interacting weak interaction. For quartic couplings involving photons, $����$ collisions appear to be the best place to measure these couplings. Measurements using gauge boson production in $e��$ collisions are almost as precise as the $����$ processes with $e^+e^-\to VVV$ about an order or magnitude less sensitive.
Latex file uses aipbook.sty with revtex and psfig.sty. 4 figures (uuencoded) will be added with figures command. Full postcript version with embedded figures is available at ftp://ftp.physics.carleton.ca/pub/theory/godfrey/ocipc9505.ps To appear in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Vector Boson Self-Interactions, UCLA, Feb. 1-3, 1995
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences
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