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Measurement of the Zγ → ννγ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV and limits on anomalous ZZγ and Zγγ trilinear gauge boson couplings
Abstract
An inclusive measurement of the Zγ → ννγ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV is presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb^(−1) collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. This measurement is based on the observation of events with large missing energy and with a single photon with transverse momentum above 145 GeV and absolute pseudorapidity in the range |η|<1.44. The measured Zγ → ννγ production cross section, 52.7±2.1 (stat)±6.4 (syst)±1.4 (lumi) fb, agrees well with the standard model prediction of 50.0_(−2.2)^(+2.4) fb. A study of the photon transverse momentum spectrum yields the most stringent limits to date on the anomalous ZZγ and Zγγ trilinear gauge boson couplings.
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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Received 23 February 2016. Received in revised form 30 May 2016. Accepted 30 June 2016. Available online 9 July 2016. Editor: M. Doser. Funded by SCOAP3. We thank Massimiliano Grazzini and Dirk Rathlev for providing us with the NNLO calculation of the cross section. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERCIUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).Attached Files
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Funding
- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministry of Education and Science (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
- Ministry of Science, Education and Sport (Croatia)
- Croatian Science Foundation
- Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus
- Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia)
- Estonian Research Council
- European Regional Development Fund, Estonia
- Academy of Finland
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- National Innovation Office (Hungary)
- Department of Atomic Energy (India)
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- WCU (Korea)
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- Ministry of Education (Malaysia)
- University of Malaya
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT)
- Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
- Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP)
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (New Zealand)
- Atomic Energy Commission (Pakistan)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- RosAtom (Russia)
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
- State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation (SEIDI)
- Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (CPAN)
- Swiss Funding Agencies
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
- Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand
- Special Task Force for Activating Research (Thailand)
- National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand
- Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK)
- Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
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