Sirunyan, AM;
Tumasyan, A;
Adam, W;
Ambrogi, F;
Asilar, E;
Bergauer, T;
Brandstetter, J;
... Woods, N; + view all
(2019)
Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions.
Physical Review Letters
, 122
, Article 151802. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802.
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Abstract
For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb−1, have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01 × 10−6 is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, PAIR PRODUCTION |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089604 |
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