Measurements of Z gamma and Z gamma gamma production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detectorVisa övriga samt affilieringar
Antal upphovsmän: 28602016 (Engelska)Ingår i: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, ISSN 2470-0010, Vol. 93, nr 11Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]
The production of Z bosons with one or two isolated high-energy photons is studied using pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV. The analyses use a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2012 LHC data taking. The Z gamma and Z gamma gamma production cross sections are measured with leptonic (e(+) e(-), mu(+) mu(-), nu(nu) over bar) decays of the Z boson, in extended fiducial regions defined in terms of the lepton and photon acceptance. They are then compared to cross-section predictions from the Standard Model, where the sources of the photons are radiation off initial-state quarks and radiative Z-boson decay to charged leptons, and from fragmentation of final-state quarks and gluons into photons. The yields of events with photon transverse energy E-T > 250 GeV from l(+) l(-) gamma events and with E-T > 400 GeV from nu(nu) over bar gamma events are used to search for anomalous triple gauge-boson couplings ZZ gamma and Z gamma gamma. The yields of events with diphoton invariant mass m(gamma gamma) > 200 GeV from l(+) l(-) gamma gamma events and with m(gamma gamma) > 300 GeV from nu(nu) over bar gamma gamma events are used to search for anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings ZZ gamma gamma and Z gamma gamma gamma. No deviations from Standard Model predictions are observed and limits are placed on parameters used to describe anomalous triple and quartic gauge-boson couplings.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Elsevier, 2016. Vol. 93, nr 11
Nyckelord [en]
GAUGE-BOSON COUPLINGS; PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS; HADRON COLLIDERS; W-GAMMA; LHC; LEP; SEARCH
Nationell ämneskategori
Fysik Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189152DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112002ISI: 000376998900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84975100735OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-189152DiVA, id: diva2:943593
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