Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV
A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive γγ → W⁺W⁻ production, via pp → p (*) W⁺W⁻p (*) → p (*) μ ± e ∓ p (*) at √s = 8 TeV, is reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹. Events are selected by requiring the presence of an electron-muon pair with large transverse mo...
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| author | CMS Collaboration Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics CMS Collaboration Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming |
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| description | A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive γγ → W⁺W⁻ production, via pp → p (*) W⁺W⁻p (*) → p (*) μ ± e ∓ p (*) at √s = 8 TeV, is reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹. Events are selected by requiring the presence of an electron-muon pair with large transverse momentum p T (μ ± e ∓ ) > 30 GeV, and no associated charged particles detected from the same vertex. The 8 TeV results are combined with the previous 7 TeV results (obtained for 5.05 fb⁻¹ of data). In the signal region, 13 (2) events are observed over an expected background of 3.9 ± 0.6 (0.84 ± 0.15) events for 8 (7) TeV, resulting in a combined excess of 3.4σ over the background-only hypothesis. The observed yields and kinematic distributions are compatible with the standard model prediction for exclusive and quasi-exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production. Upper limits on the anomalous quartic gauge coupling operators a 0,C W (dimension-6) and f M0,1,2,3 (dimension-8), the most stringent to date, are derived from the measured dilepton transverse momentum spectrum. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1162862022-10-02T02:29:45Z Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV CMS Collaboration Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive γγ → W⁺W⁻ production, via pp → p (*) W⁺W⁻p (*) → p (*) μ ± e ∓ p (*) at √s = 8 TeV, is reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹. Events are selected by requiring the presence of an electron-muon pair with large transverse momentum p T (μ ± e ∓ ) > 30 GeV, and no associated charged particles detected from the same vertex. The 8 TeV results are combined with the previous 7 TeV results (obtained for 5.05 fb⁻¹ of data). In the signal region, 13 (2) events are observed over an expected background of 3.9 ± 0.6 (0.84 ± 0.15) events for 8 (7) TeV, resulting in a combined excess of 3.4σ over the background-only hypothesis. The observed yields and kinematic distributions are compatible with the standard model prediction for exclusive and quasi-exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production. Upper limits on the anomalous quartic gauge coupling operators a 0,C W (dimension-6) and f M0,1,2,3 (dimension-8), the most stringent to date, are derived from the measured dilepton transverse momentum spectrum. 2018-06-13T16:22:31Z 2018-06-13T16:22:31Z 2018-06-13 2018-04-27T17:41:40Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116286 Khachatryan, V. et al. “Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016, 8 (August 2016): 119 © 2016 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-6621 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-9007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)119 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Nature Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration Apyan, Aram Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bi, Ran Bierwagen, Katharina Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Demiragli, Zeynep Di Matteo, Leonardo Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Gulhan, Doga Can Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Krajczar, Krisztian F. Lai, Yue Shi Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Varma, Mukund Madhav Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Veverka, Jan Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Yang, Ming Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title | Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title_full | Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title_short | Evidence for exclusive γγ → W⁺ W⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV |
| title_sort | evidence for exclusive γγ w⁺ w⁻ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s 7 and 8 tev |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116286 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-6656 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2622-8295 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-6621 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1486-606X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-5622 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-8346 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2850-9007 |
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