Measurement of Wγγ Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings in Proton-Proton Collisions at 8 TeV with the CMS detector


Autoria(s): Anelli, Christopher Ryan
Contribuinte(s)

Belloni, Alberto

Digital Repository at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Physics

Data(s)

22/06/2016

22/06/2016

2016

Resumo

Present the measurement of a rare Standard Model processes, pp →W±γγ for the leptonic decays of the W±. The measurement is made with 19.4 fb−1 of 8 TeV data collected in 2012 by the CMS experiment. The measured cross section is consistent with the Standard Model prediction and has a significance of 2.9σ. Limits are placed on dimension-8 Effective Field Theories of anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings. The analysis has particularly sensitivity to the fT,0 coupling and a 95% confidence limit is placed at −35.9 < fT,0/Λ4< 36.7 TeV−4. Studies of the pp →Zγγ process are also presented. The Zγγ signal is in strict agreement with the Standard Model and has a significance of 5.9σ.

Identificador

doi:10.13016/M22B5M

http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18384

Idioma(s)

en

Palavras-Chave #Particle physics #CMS #quartic gauge coupling #W\gamma\gamma
Tipo

Dissertation