Measurement of the WZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV and search for anomalous triple gauge couplings at √s=8 TeV
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Journal Article
Abstract
The WZ production cross section is measured by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in proton–proton collision data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.9fb−1 collected at s√=7TeV, and 19.6fb−1 at s√=8TeV. The measurements are performed using the fully-leptonic WZ decay modes with electrons and muons in the final state. The measured cross sections for 71<mZ<111GeV are σ(pp→WZ; s√=7TeV)=20.14±1.32(stat)±0.38(theo)±1.06(exp)±0.44(lumi)pb and σ(pp→WZ; s√=8TeV)=24.09±0.87(stat)±0.80(theo)±1.40(exp)±0.63(lumi)pb. Differential cross sections with respect to the Z boson pT, the leading jet pT, and the number of jets are obtained using the s√=8TeV data. The results are consistent with standard model predictions and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings are obtained.
Date Issued
2017-04-12
Date Acceptance
2017-03-01
Citation
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 2017, 77 (4)
ISSN
1434-6044
Publisher
SPRINGER
Journal / Book Title
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume
77
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2017 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
ELECTROWEAK VECTOR BOSONS
TRILINEAR COUPLINGS
TEVATRON
LHC
Nuclear & Particles Physics
0206 Quantum Physics
0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 236