Title
Measurement of the cross section for electroweak production of Zγ in association with two jets and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV
Date Issued
10 July 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Khachatryan V.
Sirunyan A.M.
Tumasyan A.
Adam W.
Asilar E.
Bergauer T.
Brandstetter J.
Brondolin E.
Dragicevic M.
Erö J.
Flechl M.
Friedl M.
Frühwirth R.
Ghete V.M.
Hartl C.
Hörmann N.
Hrubec J.
Jeitler M.
König A.
Krätschmer I.
Liko D.
Matsushita T.
Mikulec I.
Rabady D.
Rad N.
Rahbaran B.
Rohringer H.
Schieck J.
Strauss J.
Treberer-Treberspurg W.
Waltenberger W.
Wulz C.E.
Mossolov V.
Shumeiko N.
Suarez Gonzalez J.
Alderweireldt S.
De Wolf E.A.
Janssen X.
Lauwers J.
Van De Klundert M.
Van Haevermaet H.
Van Mechelen P.
Van Remortel N.
Van Spilbeeck A.
Abu Zeid S.
Blekman F.
D'Hondt J.
Daci N.
De Bruyn I.
Deroover K.
Heracleous N.
Lowette S.
Moortgat S.
Moreels L.
Olbrechts A.
Python Q.
Tavernier S.
Van Doninck W.
Van Mulders P.
Van Parijs I.
Brun H.
Caillol C.
Clerbaux B.
De Lentdecker G.
Delannoy H.
Fasanella G.
Favart L.
Goldouzian R.
Grebenyuk A.
Karapostoli G.
Lenzi T.
Léonard A.
Luetic J.
Maerschalk T.
Marinov A.
Randle-conde A.
Seva T.
Vander Velde C.
Vanlaer P.
Yonamine R.
Zenoni F.
Zhang F.
Cimmino A.
Cornelis T.
Dobur D.
Fagot A.
Garcia G.
Gul M.
Poyraz D.
Salva S.
Schöfbeck R.
Tytgat M.
Van Driessche W.
Yazgan E.
Zaganidis N.
Beluffi C.
Bondu O.
Brochet S.
Bruno G.
Caudron A.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
A measurement is presented of the cross section for the electroweak production of a Z boson and a photon in association with two jets in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV. The Z bosons are identified through their decays to electron or muon pairs. The measurement is based on data collected with the CMS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. The electroweak contribution has a significance of 3.0 standard deviations, and the measured fiducial cross section is 1.86−0.75+0.90(stat)−0.26+0.34(syst)±0.05(lumi) fb, while the summed electroweak and quantum chromodynamic total cross section in the same region is observed to be 5.94−1.35+1.53(stat)−0.37+0.43(syst)±0.13(lumi) fb. Both measurements are consistent with the leading-order standard model predictions. Limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set based on the Zγ mass distribution.
Start page
380
End page
402
Volume
770
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física atómica, molecular y química
Física nuclear
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85018934020
Source
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
03702693
Sponsor(s)
Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.
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