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
- 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
- Mohammed V University in Rabat
- Tel Aviv University
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- New York University
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- 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 language | English |
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| Article number | 82 |
| Journal | Journal of high energy physics |
| Volume | 2023 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-6480-6079/work/172566406 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/173516645 |
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Keywords
- Electroweak Interaction, Hadron-Hadron Scattering