GAUGE BOSON PAIR PRODUCTION AT THE LHC - ANOMALOUS COUPLINGS AND VECTOR BOSON SCATTERING

We compare vector boson fusion and quark antiquark annihilation produc tion of vector boson pairs at the LHC and include the effects of anoma lous couplings. Results are given for confidence intervals for anomalo us couplings at the LHC assuming that measurements will be in agreemen t with the standard model. We consider all couplings of the general tr iple vector boson vertex and their correlations. In addition we consid er a gauge invariant dimension-six extension of the standard model. An alytical results for the cross sections for quark antiquark annihilati on and vector boson fusion with anomalous couplings are given.