TY - JOUR
T1 - Combination of searches for WW, WZ, and ZZ resonances in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Atlas Collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abreu, R.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adams, D. L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adomeit, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Agatonovic-Jovin, T.
AU - Agricola, J.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Akerstedt, H.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Alberghi, G. L.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albrand, S.
AU - Alconada Verzini, M. J.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Alimonti, G.
AU - Alio, L.
AU - Alison, J.
AU - Alkire, S. P.
AU - Allbrooke, B. M.M.
AU - Allport, P. P.
AU - Aloisio, A.
AU - Alonso, A.
AU - Alonso, F.
AU - Alpigiani, C.
AU - Altheimer, A.
AU - Alvarez Gonzalez, B.
AU - Rudolph, M. S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN and the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA) and in the Tier-2 facilities worldwide.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT , Argentina; YerPhI , Armenia; ARC , Australia; BMWFW and FWF , Austria; ANAS , Azerbaijan; SSTC , Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP , Brazil; NSERC , NRC and CFI , Canada; CERN ; CONICYT , Chile; CAS , MOST and NSFC , China; COLCIENCIAS , Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF , DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation , Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS , CEA-DSM/IRFU , France; GNSF , Georgia; BMBF , HGF , and MPG , Germany; GSRT , Greece; RGC , Hong Kong SAR , China; ISF , I-CORE and Benoziyo Center , Israel; INFN , Italy; MEXT and JSPS , Japan; CNRST , Morocco; FOM and NWO , Netherlands; RCN , Norway; MNiSW and NCN , Poland; FCT , Portugal; MNE/IFA , Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI , Russian Federation; JINR ; MESTD , Serbia; MSSR , Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ , Slovenia; DST/NRF , South Africa; MINECO , Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; SERI , SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva , Switzerland; MOST , Taiwan; TAEK , Turkey; STFC , United Kingdom; DOE and NSF , United States. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF , the Canada Council , CANARIE , CRC , Compute Canada , FQRNT , and the Ontario Innovation Trust , Canada; EPLANET , ERC , FP7 , Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions , European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex , ANR , Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir , France; DFG and AvH Foundation , Germany; Herakleitos , Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF ; BSF , GIF and Minerva , Israel; BRF , Norway; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust , United Kingdom.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration
PY - 2016/4/10
Y1 - 2016/4/10
N2 - The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to WW, WZ and ZZ final states in multiple decay channels using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=8 TeV. In the current study, the results of these searches are combined to provide a more stringent test of models predicting heavy resonances with couplings to vector bosons. Direct searches for a charged diboson resonance decaying to WZ in the ℓνℓ′ℓ′ (ℓ=μ,e), ℓℓqq¯ ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WZ bosons are compared with predictions of an extended gauge model with a heavy W′ boson. In addition, direct searches for a neutral diboson resonance decaying to WW and ZZ in the ℓℓqq¯ ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WW and ZZ bosons are compared with predictions for a heavy, spin-2 graviton in an extended Randall–Sundrum model where the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the extra dimension.
AB - The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to WW, WZ and ZZ final states in multiple decay channels using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=8 TeV. In the current study, the results of these searches are combined to provide a more stringent test of models predicting heavy resonances with couplings to vector bosons. Direct searches for a charged diboson resonance decaying to WZ in the ℓνℓ′ℓ′ (ℓ=μ,e), ℓℓqq¯ ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WZ bosons are compared with predictions of an extended gauge model with a heavy W′ boson. In addition, direct searches for a neutral diboson resonance decaying to WW and ZZ in the ℓℓqq¯ ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WW and ZZ bosons are compared with predictions for a heavy, spin-2 graviton in an extended Randall–Sundrum model where the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the extra dimension.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042040669
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 755
SP - 285
EP - 305
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -