Search for WWγ and WZγ Production and Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Ma, Teng; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Yang, Mingming; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Dutta, Valentina; Lee, Yen-Jie; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wyslouch, Victoria; Bauer, Gerry P; Levin, Andrew Michael; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; ... Show more Show less
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A search for WVγ triple vector boson production is presented based on events containing a W boson decaying to a muon or an electron and a neutrino, a second V (W or Z) boson, and a photon. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb[superscript −1] collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV. An upper limit of 311 fb on the cross section for the WVγ production process is obtained at 95% confidence level for photons with a transverse energy above 30 GeV and with an absolute value of pseudorapidity of less than 1.44. This limit is approximately a factor of 3.4 larger than the standard model predictions that are based on next-to-leading order QCD calculations. Since no evidence of anomalous WWγγ or WWZγ quartic gauge boson couplings is found, this paper presents the first experimental limits on the dimension-eight parameter f[subscript T,0] and the CP-conserving WWZγ parameters κ[W over 0] and κ[W over C]. Limits are also obtained for the WWγγ parameters a[W over 0] and a[W over C].
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2014-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Search for WWγ and WZγ Production and Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Phys. Rev. D 90, no. 3 (August 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration
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1550-7998
1550-2368