Search for high-mass <i>W</i>γ and <i>Z</i>γ resonances using hadronic <i>W</i>/<i>Z</i> boson decays from 139 fb<SUP>-1</SUP> of <i>pp</i> collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector


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Aad G., Abbott B., Abbott D., Abed Abud A., Abeling K., Abhayasinghe D., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, cilt.2023, sa.7, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2023 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/jhep07(2023)125
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A search for high-mass charged and neutral bosons decaying to W gamma and Z gamma final states is presented in this paper. The analysis uses a data sample of root s = 13TeV proton-proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS detector during LHC Run 2 operation. The sensitivity of the search is determined using models of the production and decay of spin-1 charged bosons and spin-0/2 neutral bosons. The range of resonance masses explored extends from 1.0TeV to 6.8TeV. At these high resonance masses, it is beneficial to target the hadronic decays of the W and Z bosons because of their large branching fractions. The decay products of the high-momentum W/Z bosons are strongly collimated and boosted-boson tagging techniques are employed to improve the sensitivity. No evidence of a signal above the Standard Model backgrounds is observed, and upper limits on the production cross-sections of these bosons times their branching fractions to W gamma and Z gamma are derived for various boson production models.