Measurement of Wγ and Zγ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
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Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Li, W.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Wenger, Edward Allen; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Roland, Gunther M; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Yang, Mingming; Alver, Burak Han; Harris, Philip Coleman; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Stoeckli, Fabian; Xie, Si; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; Lee, Yen-Jie; Loizides, Constantinos; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/92468/Chatrchyan-2011-Measurement%20of%20W_%20an.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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A measurement of Wγ and Zγ production in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV is presented. Results are based on a data sample recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb[superscript −1]. The electron and muon decay channels of the W and Z are used. The total cross sections are measured for photon transverse energy E [γ over τ] > 10 GeV and spatial separation from charged leptons in the plane of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle ΔR(ℓ,γ) > 0.7, and with an additional dilepton invariant mass requirement of M[subscript ℓℓ] > 50 GeV for the Zγ process. The following cross section times branching fraction values are found: σ(pp→Wγ+X) × B(W→ℓν) = 56.3 ± 5.0(stat.) ± 5.0(syst.) ± 2.3(lumi.) pb and σ(pp→Zγ+X) × B(Z→ℓℓ) = 9.4 ± 1.0(stat.) ± 0.6(syst.) ± 0.4(lumi.) pb. These measurements are in agreement with standard model predictions. The first limits on anomalous WWγ, ZZγ, and Zγγ trilinear gauge couplings at √s = 7 TeV source are set.
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2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Measurement of Wγ and Zγ Production in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV.” Physics Letters B 701, no. 5 (July 2011): 535–555. © 2011 CERN
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03702693