Search for ZZ resonances in the 2ℓ2ν final state in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
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Author(s)
CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Date Issued
March 2018
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for ZZ Resonances in the 2ℓ2ν Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 3 (March 2018): 3 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Z bosons is performed using data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events are selected by requiring two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons), consistent with the decay of a Z boson, and large missing transverse momentum, which is interpreted as arising from the decay of a second Z boson to two neutrinos. The analysis uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. The hypothesis of a spin-2 bulk graviton (X) decaying to a pair of Z bosons is examined for 600 ≤ mX ≤ 2500 GeV and upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction of X → ZZ ranging from 100 to 4 fb. For bulk graviton models characterized by a curvature scale parameter k~=0.5 in the extra dimension, the region mX < 800 GeV is excluded, providing the most stringent limit reported to date. Variations of the model considering the possibility of a wide resonance produced exclusively via gluon-gluon fusion or qq¯¯¯ annihilation are also examined. Keywords: Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)003
