Search for massive resonances decaying into pairs of boosted bosons in semi-leptonic final states at root s=8 TeV by Khachatryan, V, Sirunyan, A, Tumasyan, A, Adam, W, Bergauer, T, Dragicevic, M, Eroe, J, Fabjan, C, Friedl, M, Fruehwirth, R, Ghete, V, Hartl, C, Hoemann, N, Hrubec, J, Jeitler, M, Kiesenhofer, W, Knuenz, V, Krammer, M, Kraetschmer, I, Liko, D, Mikulec, I, Rabady, D, Rahbaran, B, Rohringer, H, Schoefbeck, R

“…Techniques aiming at identifying jet substructures are used to analyze signal events in which the hadronization products from the decay of highly boosted W or Z bosons are contained within a single reconstructed jet. …”

Impact of SeaQuest data on PDF fits at large x by S. Alekhin, M. V. Garzelli, S. Kulagin, S.-O. Moch

“…We find these data in a good agreement with the QCD predictions based on PDFs fitted to the Tevatron and LHC data on forward production of W and Z bosons. As a basis for this study we use the ABMP16 PDF fits and show that they turn out to be compatible with the SeaQuest data, and that these data have constraining power, allowing to reduce the uncertainties on the isospin asymmetry of the light-sea-quark distribution at large longitudinal momentum fraction x. …”
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Measurement of Wγ and Zγ production cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E.

“…Events dominated by Wγ and Zγ production with leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons are selected, and their production cross sections and kinematic properties are measured in several ranges of the photon transverse energy. …”
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Inclusive W and Z production in the forward region at root s=7TeV by Aaij, R, Beteta, C, Adametz, A, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adrover, C, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, P, Jr, A, Amato, S, Amhis, Y, Anderson, J, Appleby, R, Gutierrez, O, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G

“…Measurements of inclusive W and Z boson production cross-sections in pp collisions at √ s = 7TeV using final states containing muons are presented. …”

Phenomenology of an SU(2) × SU(2) × U(1) model with lepton-flavour non-universality by Boucenna, Sofiane M, Celis, Alejandro, Fuentes-Martín, Javier, Vicente, Avelino, Virto, Javier

“…Fermion mixing effects with vector-like fermions give rise to potentially large new physics contributions in flavour transitions mediated by W′ and Z′ bosons. This model can ease tensions in B-physics data while satisfying stringent bounds from flavour physics, and electroweak precision data. …”
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Measurements of Wγ and Zγ production in pp collisions at √s=7  TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC by Taylor, Frank E.

“…The integrated and differential fiducial cross sections for the production of a W or Z boson in association with a high-energy photon are measured using pp collisions at √s=7  TeV. …”
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A new method to distinguish hadronically decaying boosted Z bosons from W bosons using the ATLAS detector by ATLAS Collaboration, Barr, A, Becker, K, Behr, J, Beresford, L, Cooper-Sarkar, A, Ortuzar, M, Dafinca, A, Davies, E, Frost, J, Gallas, E, Gupta, S, Gwenlan, C, Hall, D, Hays, C, Henderson, J, Howard, J, Huffman, T, Issever, C, Kalderon, C, Kogan, L, Lewis, A, Nagai, K, Nickerson, R, Pickering, M, Ryder, N, Tseng, J, Viehhauser, G, Weidberg, A, Zhong, J

“…The distribution of particles inside hadronic jets produced in the decay of boosted W and Z bosons can be used to discriminate such jets from the continuum background. …”

Flavor Physics in the Randall-Sundrum Model: I. Theoretical Setup and Electroweak Precision Tests by Casagrande, S, Goertz, F, Haisch, U, Neubert, M, Pfoh, T

“…Detailed studies of the flavor-changing couplings of the Higgs boson and of gauge bosons and their KK excitations are performed, including in particular the couplings of the standard W and Z bosons. A careful analysis of electroweak precision observables including the S and T parameters and the Zbb couplings shows that the simplest RS model containing only Standard Model particles and their KK excitations is consistent with all experimental bounds for a KK scale as low as a few TeV, if one allows for a heavy Higgs boson and/or for an ultra-violet cutoff below the Planck scale. …”

Potential for Definitive Discovery of a 70GeV Dark Matter WIMP with Only Second-Order Gauge Couplings by Roland Allen, Bailey Tallman, Alexandra Boone, Adhithya Vijayakumar, Fiona Lopez, Samuel Apata, Jehu Martinez

“…Using our calculations and estimates of these cross-sections, we discuss the potential for discovery of a recently proposed dark matter WIMP which has a mass of about 70 GeV/c$^2$ and only second-order couplings to W and Z bosons. There is evidence that indirect detection may already have been achieved, since analyses of the gamma rays detected by Fermi-LAT and the antiprotons observed by AMS-02 are consistent with 70 GeV dark matter having our calculated $\langle \sigma_{ann} v \rangle \approx 1.2 \times 10^{-26} $ cm$^3$/s. …”
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Electroweak physics and evidence for a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of tau leptons with the CMS detector by Apyan, Aram

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Search for dark matter particles produced in association with a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s$$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ = 13 TeV by Sirunyan, A. M, Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Brandstetter, J., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Escalante Del Valle, A., Flechl, M., Frühwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Krätschmer, I., Liko, D., Madlener, T., Mikulec, I.

“…This is the first search for DM particles produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of W or Z bosons, and the first statistical combination based on five Higgs boson decay channels.…”
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The importance of calorimetry for highly-boosted jet substructure by Coleman, E, Freytsis, M, Hinzmann, A, Narain, M, Thaler, J, Tran, N, Vernieri, C

“…Specifically, we consider five different hadronic final states - W bosons, Z bosons, top quarks, light quarks, gluons - and test the pairwise discrimination power with a multi-variate combination of substructure observables. …”
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A measurement of the ratio of the W and Z cross sections with exactly one associated jet in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with ATLAS by Taylor, Frank E.

“…The ratio of production cross sections of the W and Z bosons with exactly one associated jet is presented as a function of jet transverse momentum threshold. …”
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Search for the neutral current top quark decay t -> Zc using the ratio of Z-boson+4 jets to W-boson+4 jets production by Aaltonen, T, Adelman, J, Akimoto, T, Alvarez Gonzalez, B, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Attal, A, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Azzurri, P, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V, Barnett, B, Bartsch, V, Bauer, G, Beauchemin, P

“…We validate the modeling of acceptance and efficiency for lepton identification over the multiyear data set using another ratio of W and Z production, in this case the observed ratio of inclusive production of W to Z bosons. To improve the discrimination against standard model backgrounds to top-quark decays, we calculate the top-quark mass for each event with two leptons and four jets assuming it is a tt̄ event with one of the top quarks decaying to Zc. …”

A new method to distinguish hadronically decaying boosted Z bosons from W bosons using the ATLAS detector by ATLAS Collaboration, Taylor, Frank E

“…The distribution of particles inside hadronic jets produced in the decay of boosted W and Z bosons can be used to discriminate such jets from the continuum background. …”
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Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at s$$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV by Sirunyan, A. M, Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Escalante Del Valle, A., Flechl, M., Frühwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Krätschmer, I., Liko, D., Madlener, T., Mikulec, I., Rad, N., Schieck, J.

“…Limits are presented on the masses of narrow resonances from various models: string resonances, scalar diquarks, axigluons, colorons, excited quarks, color-octet scalars, W′ and Z′ bosons, Randall-Sundrum gravitons, and dark matter mediators. …”
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Performance of jet substructure techniques for large-R jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector by Taylor, Frank E., Aad, G., Abajyan, T., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D. L., Addy, T. N., Adelman, J.

“…Event samples enriched in boosted W and Z bosons and top-quark pairs are used to study both the individual jet invariant mass scales and the efficacy of algorithms to tag boosted hadronic objects. …”
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Extraction of the width of the W boson from measurements of σ(pp̄→W+X)×B(W→eν) and σ(pp̄→Z+X)×B(Z→ee) and their ratio by Abbott, B, Abolins, M, Abramov, V, Acharya, B, Adam, I, Adams, D, Adams, M, Ahn, S, Akimov, V, Alves, G, Amos, N, Anderson, E, Baarmand, M, Babintsev, V, Babukhadia, L, Baden, A, Baldin, B, Banerjee, S, Bantly, J, Barberis, E, Baringer, P, Bartlett, J, Belyaev, A, Beri, S, Bertram, I

“…We report on measurements on inclusive cross sections times branching fractions into electrons for W and Z bosons produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.8 TeV. …”

Origins of mass by Wilczek, Frank

“…The consistency of the standard model relies on a high degree of underlying gauge and chiral symmetry, so the observed non-zero masses of many elementary particles (W and Z bosons, quarks, and leptons) requires spontaneous symmetry breaking. …”
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Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV by Abulencia, A, Acosta, D, Adelman, J, Affolder, T, Akimoto, T, Albrow, MG, Ambrose, D, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Anikeev, K, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Aoki, M, Apollinari, G, Arguin, J, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Attal, A, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Azzurri, P, Bacchetta, N, Bachacou, H

“…We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z boson cross-sections times the corresponding leptonic branching ratios for collisions at TeV based on the decays of the W and Z bosons into electrons and muons. …”