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Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector

NázevTitle
Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detectorEvidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector
Druh výsledkuResult type
Článek v časopiseJournal article
AutořiAuthors
G. Aad, B. Abbott, D. C. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B. Ali, K. Augsten, B. Bergmann, P. Gallus, M. Havránek, Z. Hubáček, M. Myška, R. Novotný, S. Pospíšil, K. Smolek, A. Sopczak, V. Vacek, P. Vokáč, V. Vrba
DOIDOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134913
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
Physics Letters B. 2019, 798 ISSN 0370-2693.
RokYear
2019
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000494939000011
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-85072568508
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21220/19:00335912!RIV20-MSM-21220___
ProjektProject
Výzkum protonových srážek v experimentu ATLAS na urychlovači LHC.Investigation of proton collisions in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC accelerator.; Centrum pokročilých aplikovaných přírodních vědCenter for advanced applied sciences; Získávání nových poznatků o mikrosvětě v infrastruktuře CERNAcquiring new pieces of knowledge about micro-world in CERN research infrastructure

AbstraktAbstract

A search for the production of three massive vector bosons in proton-proton collisions is performed using data at root s = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in the years 2015-2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb(-1). Events with two same-sign leptons l (electrons or muons) and at least two reconstructed jets are selected to search for WWW -> l nu l nu qq. Events with three leptons without any same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pairs are used to search for WWW > l nu l nu l nu, while events with three leptons and at least one same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair and one or more reconstructed jets are used to search for WWZ -> l nu qqll. Finally, events with four leptons are analysed to search for WWZ > l nu l nu ll and WZZ > qqllll. Evidence for the joint production of three massive vector bosons is observed with a significance of 4.1 standard deviations, where the expectation is 3.1 standard deviations. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.

A search for the production of three massive vector bosons in proton-proton collisions is performed using data at root s = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in the years 2015-2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb(-1). Events with two same-sign leptons l (electrons or muons) and at least two reconstructed jets are selected to search for WWW -> l nu l nu qq. Events with three leptons without any same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pairs are used to search for WWW > l nu l nu l nu, while events with three leptons and at least one same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair and one or more reconstructed jets are used to search for WWZ -> l nu qqll. Finally, events with four leptons are analysed to search for WWZ > l nu l nu ll and WZZ > qqllll. Evidence for the joint production of three massive vector bosons is observed with a significance of 4.1 standard deviations, where the expectation is 3.1 standard deviations. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.