Published July 27, 2016 | Version v1

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

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Maryland U

Description

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.

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Identifiers

CDS
2202151
CDS Report Number
CERN-THESIS-2016-079

Related works

Is variant form of
Other: 1903/18384 (Handle)
Other: 1503623 (Inspire)

CERN

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Accelerator
CERN LHC
Experiment
CMS

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