Studies of the Energy Dependence of Diboson Polarization Fractions and the Radiation-Amplitude-Zero Effect in WZ Production 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
- 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
This Letter presents the first study of the energy dependence of diboson polarization fractions in WZ → ℓνℓ′ℓ′(ℓ,ℓ′ = e; μ) production. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. Two fiducial regions with an enhanced presence of events featuring two longitudinally polarized bosons are defined. A nonzero fraction of events with two longitudinally polarized bosons is measured with an observed significance of 5.3 standard deviations in the region with 100 < pZT ≤ 200 GeV and 1.6 standard deviations in the region with pZT > 200 GeV, where pZT is the transverse momentum of the Z boson. This Letter also reports the first study of the radiation-amplitude-zero effect. Events with two transversely polarized bosons are analyzed for the ΔY(ℓWZ) and ΔYℓWZ) distributions defined respectively as the rapidity difference between the lepton from the W boson decay and the Z boson and the rapidity difference between the W boson and the Z boson. Significant suppression of events near zero is observed in both distributions. Unfolded ΔY(ℓWZ) and ΔY(WZ) distributions are also measured and compared to theoretical predictions.
Details
Original language | English |
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Volume | 133 |
Issue number | 10 |
Journal | Physical review letters |
Publication status | Published - 6 Sept 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 39303233 |
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ORCID | /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/180372333 |