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

  • The ATLAS collaboration - , University of Bucharest, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, University of Pretoria, University of South Africa, University of Zululand, Cadi Ayyad University, NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Granada, CERN, University of California at Berkeley, University of Georgia (Tbilisi), Yeditepe University, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Author)
  • M. Kobel - , Chair of Particle Physics (Author)
  • J. Manjarres Ramos - , French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (Author)
  • J. E. Nitschke - , Chair of Particle Physics (Author)
  • F. Siegert - , Chair of Particle Physics (Author)
  • 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
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Southern Methodist University
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • 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.

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PubMed 39303233
ORCID /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/180372333