Measurement of the electroweak production of Zγ and two jets in proton-proton collisions at s =13 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings
Physical Review D, vol.104, no.7, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 104 Issue: 7
- Publication Date: 2021
- Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevd.104.072001
- Journal Name: Physical Review D
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, INSPEC, zbMATH
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Erzincan Binali Yildirim University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
© 2021 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society.The first observation of the electroweak (EW) production of a Z boson, a photon, and two forward jets (Zγjj) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. A data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016-2018 is used. The measured fiducial cross section for EW Zγjj is σEW=5.21±0.52(stat)±0.56(syst) fb=5.21±0.76 fb. Single-differential cross sections in photon, leading lepton, and leading jet transverse momenta, and double-differential cross sections in mjj and |Δηjj| are also measured. Exclusion limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are derived at 95% confidence level in terms of the effective field theory operators M0 to M5, M7, T0 to T2, and T5 to T9.