Search For Anomalous Couplings In Boosted Mathrm Ww Wz To Ell Nu Mathrm Q Bar Q Production In Proton Proton Collisions At Sqrt S

Search for Anomalous Couplings in Boosted $\mathrm{ WW/WZ }\to\ell\nu\mathrm{ Q \bar{q} }$ Production in Proton-proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}

This Letter presents a search for new physics manifested as anomalous triple gauge boson couplings in WW and WZ diboson production in proton-proton collisions. The search is performed using events containing a W boson that decays leptonically and a W or Z boson whose decay products are merged into a single reconstructed jet. The data, collected at sqrt(s) =8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19 inverse femtobarns. No evidence for anomalous triple gauge couplings is found and the following 95% confidence level limits are set on their values: lambda ([-0.011,0.011]), Delta kappa[gamma] ([-0.044,0.063]), and Delta g[1,Z] ([-0.0087,0.024]). These limits are also translated into their effective field theory equivalents: c[WWW]/ Lambda^2, ([-2.7,2.7] TeV^{-2}), c[B]/ Lambda^2, ([-14,17] TeV^{-2}), and c[W]/ Lambda^2, ([-2.0,5.7] TeV^{-2}).

Search for Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in WW and WZ Production in Lepton + Jet Events in Proton-proton Collisions at √s

Measurement of the $WZ\rightarrow \ell\nu\ell\ell$ Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$

The standard model (SM) of particle physics has been extensively tested in the past three decades and is found to be in excellent agreement with experimental observations. It is widely assumed, however, that the SM is only a low energy approximation of a more general theory. Therefore, any significant deviation from the SM predictions yields information on the nature of a more fundamental theory. Production of WZ pairs is the least studied diboson process within the SM, as it is a charged final state and can only be produced at hadron colliders. A detailed study of this process probes the electroweak sector of the SM. In addition, searches for new phenomena in the production of heavy gauge boson pairs are interesting, as many extensions of the SM predict 1-4 additional heavy gauge bosons that can decay into a WZ boson pairs.