Searches for heavy <i>ZZ</i> and <i>ZW</i> resonances in the <i>llqq</i> and <i>vvqq</i> final states in <i>pp</i> collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H
et al (show 2883 more authors) (2018) Searches for heavy <i>ZZ</i> and <i>ZW</i> resonances in the <i>llqq</i> and <i>vvqq</i> final states in <i>pp</i> collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 03 (3). 009-.

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Abstract

This paper reports searches for heavy resonances decaying into $ZZ$ or $ZW$ using data from proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$, were recorded with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 at the Large Hadron Collider. The searches are performed in final states in which one $Z$ boson decays into either a pair of light charged leptons (electrons and muons) or a pair of neutrinos, and the associated $W$ boson or the other $Z$ boson decays hadronically. No evidence of the production of heavy resonances is observed. Upper bounds on the production cross sections of heavy resonances times their decay branching ratios to $ZZ$ or $ZW$ are derived in the mass range 300--5000 GeV within the context of Standard Model extensions with additional Higgs bosons, a heavy vector triplet or warped extra dimensions. Production through gluon--gluon fusion, Drell--Yan or vector-boson fusion are considered, depending on the assumed model.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 52 pages in total, author list starting page 36, 14 figures, 5 tables, published version, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2016-29/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2018 10:16
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2023 22:30
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2018)009
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)009
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3017806