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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

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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 σ_(EW) = 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 m_(jj) and |Δη_(jj)| 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.

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© 2021 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 21 June 2021; accepted 30 August 2021; published 5 October 2021. 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 and other centers 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, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI, and FEDER (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contracts No. 675440, No. 724704, No. 752730, No. 765710 and No. 824093 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F. R. S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the "Excellence of Science—EOS"—be.h project n. 30820817; the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under Germany's Excellence Strategy—EXC 2121 "Quantum Universe"—No. 390833306, and under project No. 400140256—GRK2497; the Lendület ("Momentum") Program and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program ÚNKP, the NKFIA research grants No. 123842, No. 123959, No. 124845, No. 124850, No. 125105, No. 128713, No. 128786, and No. 129058 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center, contracts Opus No 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 and No. 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 (Poland); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, project no. 0723-2020-0041 (Russia); the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu, grant No. MDM-2015-0509 and the Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract No. C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA).

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Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung Und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São 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)
Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT)
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 a l'Energie Atomique (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)
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
National Research, Development and 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)
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea)
National Research Foundation of Korea
Ministry of Education and Science (Latvia)
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Education (Malaysia)
University of Malaya
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV)
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo (LNS)
Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Inicio-Facultad de Ingeniería (UASLP-FAI)
Ministero della Scienza del Montenegro (MOS)
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 Tecnologia (FCT)
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
RosAtom
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
National Research Center, Kurchatov Institute (Russia)
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia)
Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación
Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas (CPAN)
Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Research (Sri Lanka)
Swiss Funding Agencies
Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (Thailand)
Special Task Force for Activating Research (Thailand)
National Science and Technology Development Agency (Thailand)
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK)
Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
State Fund for Fundamental Research (Ukraine)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Department of Energy (DOE)
NSF
Marie Curie Fellowship
European Research Council (ERC)
675440
European Research Council (ERC)
724704
European Research Council (ERC)
752730
European Research Council (ERC)
765710
European Research Council (ERC)
824093
Leventis Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
30820817
Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission
Z191100007219010
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
EXC 2121
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
390833306
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
400140256 – GRK2497
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
123842
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
123959
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
124845
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
124850
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
125105
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
128713
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
128786
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
129058
Council of Science and Industrial Research (India)
Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
OPUS Program
2014/15/B/ST2/03998
OPUS Program
2015/19/B/ST2/02861
Qatar National Research Fund National Priorities Research Program
Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Russia)
0723-2020-0041
Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu
MDM-2015-0509
Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias
Thalis Program
Aristeia Program
European Social Fund
Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand)
Kavli Foundation
NVIDIA Corporation
SuperMicro Corporation
Robert A. Welch Foundation
C-1845
Weston Havens Foundation
SCOAP3

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