Search for Leptophobic Z' Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt(s)

Search for Leptophobic Z' Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt(s) PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
A search for heavy narrow resonances decaying into four-lepton final states from cascade decays of a Z' boson has been performed using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. No excess of events over the standard model background expectation is observed. Upper limits for a benchmark model on the product of cross section and branching fraction for the production of these heavy narrow resonances are presented. The limit excludes leptophobic Z' bosons with masses below 2.5 TeV within the benchmark model. This is the first result to constrain a leptophobic Z' resonance in the four-lepton channel.

Search for Leptophobic Z' Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt(s)

Search for Leptophobic Z' Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt(s) PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
A search for heavy narrow resonances decaying into four-lepton final states from cascade decays of a Z' boson has been performed using proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. No excess of events over the standard model background expectation is observed. Upper limits for a benchmark model on the product of cross section and branching fraction for the production of these heavy narrow resonances are presented. The limit excludes leptophobic Z' bosons with masses below 2.5 TeV within the benchmark model. This is the first result to constrain a leptophobic Z' resonance in the four-lepton channel.

Search for Leptophobic Z′ Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at √s

Search for Leptophobic Z′ Bosons Decaying Into Four-lepton Final States in Proton-proton Collisions at √s PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description


Search for the Production of ZW and ZZ Boson Pairs Decaying Into Charged Leptons and Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt[s]

Search for the Production of ZW and ZZ Boson Pairs Decaying Into Charged Leptons and Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt[s] PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
We present a measurement of the production cross section for ZW and ZZ boson pairs in final states with a pair of charged leptons, from the decay of a Z boson, and at least two jets, from the decay of a W or Z boson, using the full sample of proton-antiproton collisions recorded with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, corresponding to 8.9 fb(̂-1) of integrated luminosity. We increase the sensitivity to vector boson decays into pairs of quarks using a neural network discriminant that exploits the differences between the spatial spread of energy depositions and charged-particle momenta contained within the jet of particles originating from quarks and gluons. Additionally, we employ new jet energy corrections to Monte Carlo simulations that account for differences in the observed energy scales for quark and gluon jets. The number of signal events is extracted through a simultaneous fit to the dijet mass spectrum in three classes of events: events likely to contain jets with a heavy-quark decay, events likely to contain jets originating from light quarks, and events that fail these identification criteria. We determine the production cross section to be 2.5 +2.0 -1.0 pb (

Search for Excited Leptons in Proton-proton Collisions at {u221A}(s)

Search for Excited Leptons in Proton-proton Collisions at {u221A}(s) PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Get Book Here

Book Description
Our search for compositeness of electrons and muons is presented using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √(s) = 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1. Excited leptons (l*) produced via contact interactions in conjunction with a standard model lepton are considered, and a search is made for their gauge decay modes. The decays considered are l* →l? and l* → lZ, which give final states of two leptons and a photon or, depending on the Z-boson decay mode, four leptons or two leptons and two jets. The number of events observed in data is consistent with the standard model prediction. Exclusion limits are set on the excited lepton mass, and the compositeness scale L. For the case Ml* = L the existence of excited electrons (muons) is excluded up to masses of 2.45 (2.47) TeV at 95% confidence level. The neutral current decays of excited leptons are considered for the first time, and limits are extended to include the possibility that the weight factors f and f ', which determine the couplings between standard model leptons and excited leptons via gauge mediated interactions, have opposite sign.

A Search for Lepton-flavor-violating Decays of the Z Boson Into a Τ-lepton and a Light Lepton with the ATLAS Detector in Proton-proton Collisions at √s

A Search for Lepton-flavor-violating Decays of the Z Boson Into a Τ-lepton and a Light Lepton with the ATLAS Detector in Proton-proton Collisions at √s PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Get Book Here

Book Description


Search for Heavy Lepton Resonances Decaying to a Z Boson and a Lepton in Pp Collisions at \(\sqrt{s}

Search for Heavy Lepton Resonances Decaying to a Z Boson and a Lepton in Pp Collisions at \(\sqrt{s} PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
A search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at \(\sqrt{s}=8 \) TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114-176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100-468 GeV are excluded.

Search for Heavy Lepton Resonances Decaying to a Z Boson and a Lepton in Pp Collisions at {u221A}s

Search for Heavy Lepton Resonances Decaying to a Z Boson and a Lepton in Pp Collisions at {u221A}s PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
In this study, a search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at √s=8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114–176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100–468 GeV are excluded.

Search for Long-lived Particles that Decay Into Final States Containing Two Electrons Or Two Muons in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}

Search for Long-lived Particles that Decay Into Final States Containing Two Electrons Or Two Muons in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description
A search is performed for long-lived particles that decay into final states that include a pair of electrons or a pair of muons. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology consisting of a pair of charged leptons originating from a displaced secondary vertex. Events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 (20.5) fb-1 in the electron (muon) channel were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV. No significant excess is observed above standard model expectations. Upper limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction of such a signal are presented as a function of the long-lived particle's mean proper decay length. The limits are presented in an approximately model-independent way, allowing them to be applied to a wide class of models yielding the above topology. Over much of the investigated parameter space, the limits obtained are the most stringent to date. In the specific case of a model in which a Higgs boson in the mass range 125-1000 GeV/c2 decays into a pair of long-lived neutral bosons in the mass range 20-350 GeV/c2, each of which can then decay to dileptons, the upper limits obtained are typically in the range 0.2-10 fb for mean proper decay lengths of the long-lived particles in the range 0.01-100 cm. In the case of the lowest Higgs mass considered (125 GeV/c2), the limits are in the range 2-50 fb. As a result, these limits are sensitive to Higgs boson branching fractions as low as 10-4.

Search for W' Decaying to Tau Lepton and Neutrino in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$

Search for W' Decaying to Tau Lepton and Neutrino in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Get Book Here

Book Description
We found that the first search for a heavy charged vector boson in the final state with a tau lepton and a neutrino is reported, using 19.7 fb-1 of LHC data at √s = 8 TeV. A signal would appear as an excess of events in kinematic regions where the standard model background is low. No excess is observed. Limits are set on a model in which the W' decays preferentially to fermions of the third generation. Our results substantially extend previous constraints on this model. Masses below 2.0 to 2.7 TeV are excluded, depending on the model parameters. In addition, the existence of a W' boson with universal fermion couplings is excluded at 95% confidence level, for W' masses below 2.7 TeV.

Search for New Resonances Decaying Via WZ to Leptons in Proton{u2013}proton Collisions at $\sqrt S

Search for New Resonances Decaying Via WZ to Leptons in Proton{u2013}proton Collisions at $\sqrt S PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Get Book Here

Book Description
A search is performed in proton–proton collisions at √s=8 TeV for exotic particles decaying via WZ to fully leptonic final states with electrons, muons, and neutrinos. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-1. No significant excess is observed above the expected standard model background. Upper bounds at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a W' boson as predicted by an extended gauge model, and on the W'WZ coupling. The expected and observed mass limits for a W' boson, as predicted by this model, are 1.55 and 1.47 TeV, respectively. Stringent limits are also set in the context of low-scale technicolor models under a range of assumptions for the model parameters.