Measurements of [Zeta]γ and [Zeta]γγ production in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The production of Z bosons with one or two isolated high-energy photons is studied using pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. The analyses use a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2012 LHC data taking. The Zγ and Zγγ production cross sections are...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2 June 2016
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Physical review
Year: 2016, Volume: 93, Issue: 11 |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112002 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112002 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112002 |
| Author Notes: | G. Aad et al.* (ATLAS Collaboration) |
| Summary: | The production of Z bosons with one or two isolated high-energy photons is studied using pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. The analyses use a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2012 LHC data taking. The Zγ and Zγγ production cross sections are measured with leptonic (e+e−, μ+μ−, ν¯ν) decays of the Z boson, in extended fiducial regions defined in terms of the lepton and photon acceptance. They are then compared to cross-section predictions from the Standard Model, where the sources of the photons are radiation off initial-state quarks and radiative Z-boson decay to charged leptons, and from fragmentation of final-state quarks and gluons into photons. The yields of events with photon transverse energy ET>250 GeV from ℓ+ℓ−γ events and with ET>400 GeV from ν¯νγ events are used to search for anomalous triple gauge-boson couplings ZZγ and Zγγ. The yields of events with diphoton invariant mass mγγ>200 GeV from ℓ+ℓ−γγ events and with mγγ>300 GeV from ν¯νγγ events are used to search for anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings ZZγγ and Zγγγ. No deviations from Standard Model predictions are observed and limits are placed on parameters used to describe anomalous triple and quartic gauge-boson couplings. |
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| Item Description: | Im Titel steht der Buchstabe s unter dem Wurzelzeichen Im Titel ist "Zeta" als griechischer Buchstabe dargestellt *ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, C.F. Anders, V. Andrei, A.E. Baas, O. Brandt, Y. Davygora, J.I. Djuvsland, M. Dunford, M.P. Geisler, M. Giulini, P. Hanke. J. Jongmanns, E.-E. Kluge, M. Kolb, M. Kretz, A. Kugel, V.S. Lang, M. Lisovyi, K. Meier, H. Meyer zu Theenhausen, D.I. Narrias Villar, V. Radescu, M. Sahinsoy, S. Schaetzel, V. Scharf, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, D. Sosa, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, S. Suchek, M. Wessels [und 2829 weitere Personen] Gesehen am 26.05.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112002 |