: This Letter reports the observation of WZγ production and a measurement of its cross section using 140.1±1.2 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The WZγ production cross section, with both the W and Z bosons decaying leptonically, pp→WZγ→ℓ^{'}^{±}νℓ^{+}ℓ^{-}γ (ℓ^{(^{'})}=e, μ), is measured in a fiducial phase-space region defined such that the leptons and the photon have high transverse momentum and the photon is isolated. The cross section is found to be 2.01±0.30(stat)±0.16(syst) fb. The corresponding standard model predicted cross section calculated at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and at leading order in the electroweak coupling constant is 1.50±0.06 fb. The observed significance of the WZγ signal is 6.3σ, compared with an expected significance of 5.0σ.
Observation of WZγ Production in pp Collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector / Add, G.; Aloisio, A.; Alviggi, M.; Auricchio, S.; Canale, V.; Cirotto, F.; Della Pietra, M.; Merola, L.; Massarotti, P.; Rossi, E.; Conventi, F.; Izzo, V.; Sekhniaidze, G. G.; Camerlingo, M. T.; Iengo, P.; Di Donato, C.; De Asmundis, R.; Carlino, G.; Doria, A.; Al, Et. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 132:2(2024), p. 021802. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021802]
Observation of WZγ Production in pp Collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
A. Aloisio;M. Alviggi;S. Auricchio;V. Canale;F. Cirotto;M. Della Pietra;L. Merola;P. Massarotti;E. Rossi;
2024
Abstract
: This Letter reports the observation of WZγ production and a measurement of its cross section using 140.1±1.2 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The WZγ production cross section, with both the W and Z bosons decaying leptonically, pp→WZγ→ℓ^{'}^{±}νℓ^{+}ℓ^{-}γ (ℓ^{(^{'})}=e, μ), is measured in a fiducial phase-space region defined such that the leptons and the photon have high transverse momentum and the photon is isolated. The cross section is found to be 2.01±0.30(stat)±0.16(syst) fb. The corresponding standard model predicted cross section calculated at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and at leading order in the electroweak coupling constant is 1.50±0.06 fb. The observed significance of the WZγ signal is 6.3σ, compared with an expected significance of 5.0σ.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
