Measurement of electroweak Z(νν¯) γjj production and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Contributors

  • The ATLAS collaboration - , University of California at Berkeley, University of Bucharest, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, University of Pretoria, University of South Africa, University of Zululand, Cadi Ayyad University, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Georgia (Tbilisi), CERN (Author)
  • Chair of Experimental Particle Physics
  • Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • Chair of Particle Physics
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Göttingen
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules LAPP
  • AGH University of Science and Technology
  • University of Toronto
  • Brandeis University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • University of Granada
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS)
  • TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • University of Warwick

Abstract

The electroweak production of Z(νν¯) γ in association with two jets is studied in a regime with a photon of high transverse momentum above 150 GeV using proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2015–2018 LHC data-taking period. This process is an important probe of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism in the Standard Model and is sensitive to quartic gauge boson couplings via vector-boson scattering. The fiducial Z(νν¯) γjj cross section for electroweak production is measured to be 0.77−0.30+0.34 fb and is consistent with the Standard Model prediction. Evidence of electroweak Z(νν¯) γjj production is found with an observed significance of 3.2σ for the background-only hypothesis, compared with an expected significance of 3.7σ. The combination of this result with the previously published ATLAS observation of electroweak Z(νν¯) γjj production yields an observed (expected) signal significance of 6.3σ (6.6σ). Limits on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings are obtained in the framework of effective field theory with dimension-8 operators. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number82
JournalJournal of high energy physics
Volume2023
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-6480-6079/work/172566406
ORCID /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/173516645

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Keywords

  • Electroweak Interaction, Hadron-Hadron Scattering