Abstract
Measurements are reported of the WZ and ZZ production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at (Formula presented.) in final states where one Z boson decays to b-tagged jets. The other gauge boson, either W or Z, is detected through its leptonic decay (either (Formula presented.)). The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.9 fb(Formula presented.) collected with the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured cross sections, (Formula presented.), are consistent with next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics calculations.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2973 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-22 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal C |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014, The Author(s).
Funding
We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, SF0690030s09 and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme 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 Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Not added | ST/H00081X/2 |
| CPAN | |
| EU-ESF | |
| FRIA-Belgium | |
| IWT-Belgium | |
| MESTD | |
| MON | |
| MSES | |
| MSHE | |
| MoER | SF0690030s09 |
| STAR | |
| Swiss Funding Agencies | |
| TUBITAK | |
| UASLP-FAI | |
| National Science Foundation | 1151640, 1314131, 0906479, 1306951, 1205960, 1120138 |
| National Institutes of Health | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
| Hispanics in Philanthropy | |
| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| Western Carolina University | |
| Compagnia di San Paolo | |
| Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS) | |
| Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu | |
| Louisiana Academy of Sciences | |
| CERN | |
| Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics | |
| Cosmetic Surgery Foundation | |
| Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | ST/F006748/1, ST/L00609X/1, ST/I000410/1, ST/J004901/1, ST/G502347/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/K001256/1, GRIDPP, ST/J005479/1, ST/I000305/1, ST/I002200/1, ST/J005665/1, ST/K001604/1, ST/L006340/1, ST/M002020/1, ST/K003844/1, CMS, ST/J004871/1, PP/E002803/1, ST/H000925/2, ST/H000925/1, ST/K001531/1, ST/M005356/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/I005912/1, ST/K001639/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/F007094/1, ST/I003622/1 |
| European Commission | |
| European Research Council | |
| Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
| Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India | |
| Ministry of Education - Singapore | |
| Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
| Science Foundation Ireland | |
| Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
| Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | 146730 |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Research Promotion Foundation | |
| Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
| National Science Council | |
| Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej | |
| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
| Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
| Academy of Finland | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Austrian Science Fund | |
| Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS | |
| Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| Belgian Federal Science Policy Office | |
| Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie | |
| Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología | |
| Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | |
| General Secretariat for Research and Technology | |
| Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | |
| Hungarian Scientific Research Fund | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | |
| Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| A.G. Leventis Foundation | |
| National Science and Technology Development Agency | |
| Universiti Malaya | |
| Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences | |
| Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives | |
| Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación | |
| Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung | |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM | |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
| Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | |
| State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine | |
| Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules |