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

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.071

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

CMS Collaboration

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	380-402
Number of pages	23
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	770
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.04.071
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2017

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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.

Funders	Funder number
EU-ESF
National Science Foundation	1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1401984, 1506130, 1211067, 1624356, 1508869
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Welch Foundation	C-1845
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Qatar National Research Fund
Ministry of Education and Science
Science and Technology Facilities Council	PP/E000479/1, GRIDPP, ST/H000925/1
European Commission
European Research Council
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Chulalongkorn University
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture
A.G. Leventis Foundation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki	2014/15/B/ST2/03998, 2012/07/E/ST2/01406, 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543
European Regional Development Fund

Keywords

CMS
Electroweak production
Physics
aQGC

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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. / CMS Collaboration.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 770, 10.07.2017, p. 380-402.

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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

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