Measurements of electroweak W±Z boson pair production in association with two jets 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
- Aix-Marseille Université
- University of Bergen
- University of Oklahoma
- NYU Abu Dhabi
- University of Göttingen
- Dortmund University of Technology
- Southern Methodist University
- Mohammed V University in Rabat
- Tel Aviv University
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- New York University
- King's College London (KCL)
- Heidelberg University
- Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules LAPP
- AGH University of Science and Technology
- Brandeis University
- University of Manchester
- Northern Illinois University
- Istanbul University
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- The University of Chicago
- Institute for High Energy Physics
- University of Pavia
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
- Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
- McGill University
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Zhengzhou University
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
Abstract
Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for electroweak W±Z production in association with two jets (W±Zjj) in proton-proton collisions are presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from 2015 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1. The W±Zjj candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons. Events containing three identified leptons, either electrons or muons, and two jets are selected. Processes involving pure electroweak W±Zjj production at Born level are separated from W±Zjj production involving a strong coupling. The measured integrated fiducial cross-section of electroweak W±Zjj production per lepton flavour is σWZjj−EW→ℓ′νlljj = 0.368 ± 0.037 (stat.) ± 0.059 (syst.) ± 0.003 (lumi.) fb, where ℓ and ℓ′ are either an electron or a muon. Respective cross-sections of electroweak and strong W±Zjj production are measured separately for events with exactly two jets or with more than two jets, and in three bins of the invariant mass of the two jets. The inclusive W±Zjj production cross-section, without separating electroweak and strong production, is also measured to be σWZjj→ℓ′νlljj = 1.462 ± 0.063 (stat.) ± 0.118 (syst.) ± 0.012 (lumi.) fb, per lepton flavour. The inclusive W±Zjj production cross-section is measured differentially for several kinematic observables. Finally, the measurements are used to constrain anomalous quartic gauge couplings by extracting 95% confidence level intervals on dimension-8 operators.
Details
Original language | English |
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Volume | 2024 |
Issue number | 6 |
Journal | Journal of high energy physics |
Publication status | Published - 27 Jun 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/181389639 |
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Keywords
- Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Proton-Proton Scattering, Vector Boson Production