Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2016) Combination of searches for W W , W Z, and Z Z resonances in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 755. pp. 285-305. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to W W , W Z and Z Z 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 W Z in the ν ( = μ, e), qq̄, νqq̄ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the W Z 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 W W and Z Z in the qq̄, νqq̄, and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the W W and Z Z 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.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2017 14:20
Last Modified:	10 Apr 2017 14:27
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67338

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