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# Search for WWγ and WZγ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV

Chatrchyan, Serguei , The CMS Collaboration (2014) Search for WWγ and WZγ production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV. Physical Review D, 90 (3), [032008].

Record type: Article

## Abstract

A search for WVγ triple vector boson production is presented based on events containing a W boson decaying to a muon or an electron and a neutrino, a second V (W or Z) boson, and a photon. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.3  fb−1 collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV. An upper limit of 311 fb on the cross section for the WVγ production process is obtained at 95% confidence level for photons with a transverse energy above 30 GeV and with an absolute value of pseudorapidity of less than 1.44. This limit is approximately a factor of 3.4 larger than the standard model predictions that are based on next-to-leading order QCD calculations. Since no evidence of anomalous WWγγ or WWZγ quartic gauge boson couplings is found, this paper presents the first experimental limits on the dimension-eight parameter fT,0 and the CP-conserving WWZγ parameters κW0 and κWC. Limits are also obtained for the WWγγ parameters aW0 and aWC.

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Published date: 25 August 2014
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 411073
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411073
ISSN: 2470-0010
PURE UUID: 964ca34b-8003-4bda-9026-8facc753d02b
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 13 Jun 2017 16:33

## Contributors

Author: Serguei Chatrchyan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration