Measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Abstract
The first measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W±W± boson pairs in proton-proton collisions are reported. The measurements are based on a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb−1. Events are selected by requiring exactly two same-sign leptons, electrons or muons, moderate missing transverse momentum, and two jets with a large rapidity separation and a large dijet mass to enhance the contribution of same-sign W±W± scattering events. An observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit of 1.17 (0.88) fbis set on the production cross section for longitudinally polarized same-sign W±W± boson pairs. The electroweak production of same-sign W±W± boson pairs with at least one of the W bosons longitudinally polarized is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 2.3 (3.1) standard deviations.
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Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Date :
2021-01-10
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812
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Elsevier
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http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8215https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320308212
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