Observation of electroweak W±Z boson pair production in association with two jets in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

被引:65
作者
Aaboud, M. [56 ,57 ]
Aad, G. [156 ]
Abbott, B. [187 ]
Abdinov, O. [18 ]
Abeloos, B. [191 ]
Abhayasinghe, D. K. [147 ]
Abidi, S. H. [235 ]
AbouZeid, O. S. [63 ]
Abraham, N. L. [222 ]
Abramowicz, H. [228 ]
Abreu, H. [227 ]
Abulaiti, Y. [8 ]
Acharya, B. S. [102 ,103 ,263 ]
Adachi, S. [230 ,231 ]
Adam, L. [154 ]
Bourdarios, C. Adam [191 ]
Adamczyk, L. [133 ]
Adelman, J. [178 ]
Adersberger, M. [169 ]
Adiguzel, A. [16 ]
Adye, T. [208 ]
Affolder, A. A. [210 ]
Afik, Y. [227 ]
Agheorghiesei, C. [41 ]
Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. [199 ,204 ]
Ahmadov, F. [18 ,126 ]
Aielli, G. [117 ,118 ]
Akatsuka, S. [136 ]
Akesson, T. P. A. [150 ]
Akilli, E. [80 ]
Akimov, A., V [165 ]
Alberghi, G. L. [33 ,34 ,35 ]
Albert, J. [245 ]
Albicocco, P. [76 ,77 ]
Alconada Verzini, M. J. [140 ,141 ]
Alderweireldt, S. [175 ]
Aleksa, M. [59 ]
Aleksandrov, I. N. [126 ]
Alexa, C. [40 ]
Alexopoulos, T. [12 ]
Alhroob, M. [187 ]
Ali, B. [206 ]
Alimonti, G. [107 ]
Alison, J. [60 ]
Alkire, S. P. [213 ]
Allaire, C. [191 ]
Allbrooke, B. M. M. [222 ]
Allen, B. W. [190 ]
Allport, P. P. [31 ]
Aloisio, A. [109 ,110 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] SUNY Albany, Dept Phys, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[3] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[4] Ankara Univ, Dept Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[5] Istanbul Aydin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey
[6] TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Div Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[7] Univ Grenoble Alpes, LAPP, Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS,IN2P3, Annecy, France
[8] Argonne Natl Lab, Div High Energy Phys, 9700 S Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[9] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[10] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, POB 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[11] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Phys Dept, Athens, Greece
[12] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Phys Dept, Zografos, Greece
[13] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[14] Bahcesehir Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[15] Istanbul Bilgi Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[16] Bogazici Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkey
[17] Gaziantep Univ, Dept Phys Engn, Gaziantep, Turkey
[18] Azerbaijan Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Baku, Azerbaijan
[19] Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
[20] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[21] Tsinghua Univ, Phys Dept, Beijing, Peoples R China
[22] Nanjing Univ, Dept Phys, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[23] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[24] Univ Belgrade, Inst Phys, Belgrade, Serbia
[25] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[26] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Phys, Berkeley, CA USA
[27] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[28] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, Berlin, Germany
[29] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[30] Univ Bern, Lab High Energy Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[31] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[32] Univ Antonio Narino, Fac Ciencias & Ctr Invest, Bogota, Colombia
[33] INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[34] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, Bologna, Italy
[35] INFN, Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[36] Univ Bonn, Phys Inst, Bonn, Germany
[37] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[38] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[39] Transilvania Univ Brasov, Brasov, Romania
[40] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[41] Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Dept Phys, Iasi, Romania
[42] Natl Inst Res & Dev Isotop & Mol Technol, Phys Dept, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[43] West Univ Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
[44] Comenius Univ, Fac Math Phys & Informat, Bratislava, Slovakia
[45] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Phys, Dept Subnucl Phys, Kosice, Slovakia
[46] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[47] Univ Buenos Aires, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[48] Calif State Univ Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840 USA
[49] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
[50] Univ Cape Town, Dept Phys, Cape Town, South Africa
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS; CROSS-SECTION; CONSTRAINTS; COUPLINGS;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.012
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
An observation of electroweak W(+/-)Z production in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions is presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016 at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1). Events containing three identified leptons, either electrons or muons, and two jets are selected. The electroweak production of W(+/-)Z bosons in association with two jets is measured with an observed significance of 5.3 standard deviations. A fiducial cross-section for electroweak production including interference effects and for a single leptonic decay mode is measured to be sigma(WZjj-EW) = 0.57(-0.13)(+0.14) (stat.) (+0.07)(-0.06) (syst.) fb. Total and differential fiducial cross-sections of the sum of W(+/-)Zjj electroweak and strong productions for several kinematic observables are also measured. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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