Title: | Study of vector boson scattering and search for new physics in events with two same-sign leptons and two jets |
Authors: | Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Erö, J Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Ghete, VM Hartl, C Beluffi, C Golovtsov, V Ivanov, Y Kim, V Levchenko, P Murzin, V Oreshkin, V Smirnov, I Sulimov, V Uvarov, L Vavilov, S Bruno, G Vorobyev, A Vorobyev, A Andreev, Y Dermenev, A Gninenko, S Golubev, N Kirsanov, M Krasnikov, N Pashenkov, A Tlisov, D Castello, R Toropin, A Epshteyn, V Gavrilov, V Lychkovskaya, N Popov, V Pozdnyakov, I Safronov, G Semenov, S Spiridonov, A Stolin, V Caudron, A Vlasov, E Zhokin, A Andreev, V Azarkin, M Dremin, I Kirakosyan, M Leonidov, A Mesyats, G Rusakov, SV Vinogradov, A Ceard, L Belyaev, A Boos, E Bunichev, V Dubinin, M Dudko, L Ershov, A Gribushin, A Klyukhin, V Kodolova, O Lokhtin, I Da Silveira, GG Obraztsov, S Savrin, V Snigirev, A Azhgirey, I Bayshev, I Bitioukov, S Kachanov, V Kalinin, A Konstantinov, D Krychkine, V Delaere, C Petrov, V Ryutin, R Sobol, A Tourtchanovitch, L Troshin, S Tyurin, N Uzunian, A Volkov, A Adzic, P Ekmedzic, M Du Pree, T Milosevic, J Rekovic, V Alcaraz Maestre, J Battilana, C Calvo, E Cerrada, M Chamizo Llatas, M Colino, N De La Cruz, B Delgado Peris, A Favart, D Domínguez Vázquez, D Escalante Del Valle, A Fernandez Bedoya, C Fernández Ramos, JP Flix, J Fouz, MC Garcia-Abia, P Gonzalez Lopez, O Goy Lopez, S Hernandez, JM Forthomme, L Josa, MI Navarro De Martino, E Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, A Puerta Pelayo, J Quintario Olmeda, A Redondo, I Romero, L Soares, MS Albajar, C De Trocóniz, JF Hörmann, N Giammanco, A Missiroli, M Moran, D Brun, H Cuevas, J Fernandez Menendez, J Folgueras, S Gonzalez Caballero, I Brochero Cifuentes, JA Cabrillo, IJ Calderon, A Hollar, J Duarte Campderros, J Fernandez, M Gomez, G Graziano, A Lopez Virto, A Marco, J Marco, R Martinez Rivero, C Matorras, F Munoz Sanchez, FJ Jafari, A Piedra Gomez, J Rodrigo, T Rodríguez-Marrero, AY Ruiz-Jimeno, A Scodellaro, L Vila, I Vilar Cortabitarte, R Abbaneo, D Auffray, E Auzinger, G Jez, P Bachtis, M Baillon, P Ball, AH Barney, D Benaglia, A Bendavid, J Benhabib, L Benitez, JF Bernet, C Bloch, P Komm, M Bocci, A Bonato, A Bondu, O Botta, C Breuker, H Camporesi, T Cerminara, G Colafranceschi, S D'Alfonso, M D'Enterria, D Lemaitre, V Dabrowski, A David, A De Guio, F De Roeck, A De Visscher, S Di Marco, E Dobson, M Dordevic, M Dupont-Sagorin, N Elliott-Peisert, A Nuttens, C Eugster, J Franzoni, G Funk, W Gigi, D Gill, K Giordano, D Girone, M Glege, F Guida, R Gundacker, S Pagano, D Guthoff, M Hammer, J Hansen, M Harris, P Hegeman, J Innocente, V Janot, P Kousouris, K Krajczar, K Lecoq, P Perrini, L Lourenço, C Magini, N Malgeri, L Mannelli, M Marrouche, J Masetti, L Meijers, F Mersi, S Meschi, E Moortgat, F Pin, A Morovic, S Mulders, M Musella, P Orsini, L Pape, L Perez, E Perrozzi, L Petrilli, A Petrucciani, G Pfeiffer, A Hrubec, J Piotrzkowski, K Pierini, M Pimiä, M Piparo, D Plagge, M Racz, A Rolandi, G Rovere, M Sakulin, H Schäfer, C Schwick, C Popov, A Sharma, A Siegrist, P Silva, P Simon, 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Keywords: | Vector boson scattering;pp collisions;Center-of-mass energy;CMS detector |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters, 114 (5): 051801, (2 February 2015) |
Abstract: | A study of vector boson scattering in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.4fb-1 collected with the CMS detector. Candidate events are selected with exactly two leptons of the same charge, two jets with large rapidity separation and high dijet mass, and moderate missing transverse energy. The signal region is expected to be dominated by electroweak same-sign W-boson pair production. The observation agrees with the standard model prediction. The observed significance is 2.0 standard deviations, where a significance of 3.1 standard deviations is expected based on the standard model. Cross section measurements for W±W± and WZ processes in the fiducial region are reported. Bounds on the structure of quartic vector-boson interactions are given in the framework of dimension-eight effective field theory operators, as well as limits on the production of doubly charged Higgs bosons. |
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URI: | http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.051801 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10342 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.051801 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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