Butterworth, Jonathan;
ATLAS Collaboration;
(2023)
Observation of gauge boson joint-polarisation states in W±Z production from pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics
, 843
, Article 137895. 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137895.
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Abstract
Measurements of joint-polarisation states of W and Z gauge bosons in W ± Z production are presented. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The W ± Z candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons into electrons and muons. The simultaneous pair-production of longitudinally polarised vector bosons is measured for the first time with a significance of 7.1 standard deviations. The measured joint helicity fractions integrated over the fiducial region are f00 = 0.067 ± 0.010, f0T = 0.110 ± 0.029, fT0 = 0.179 ± 0.023 and fTT = 0.644 ± 0.032, in agreement with the next-to-leading-order Standard Model predictions. Individual helicity fractions of the W and Z bosons are also measured and found to be consistent with joint helicity fractions within the expected amounts of correlation. Both the joint and individual helicity fractions are also measured separately in W + Z and W − Z events. Inclusive and differential cross sections for several kinematic observables sensitive to polarisation are presented.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Observation of gauge boson joint-polarisation states in W±Z production from pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137895 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137895 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172865 |
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