TY - JOUR
T1 - Combination of searches for heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, and ZH boson pairs in proton–proton collisions at √s=8 and 13 TeV
AU - The CMS collaboration
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Asilar, E.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Brandstetter, J.
AU - Brondolin, E.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Erö, J.
AU - Flechl, M.
AU - Friedl, M.
AU - Frühwirth, R.
AU - Ghete, V. M.
AU - Hartl, C.
AU - Hörmann, N.
AU - Hrubec, J.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - König, A.
AU - Krätschmer, I.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Matsushita, T.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Rabady, D.
AU - Rad, N.
AU - Rohringer, H.
AU - Schieck, J.
AU - Strauss, J.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Chekhovsky, V.
AU - Mossolov, V.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Shumeiko, N.
AU - Alderweireldt, S.
AU - De Wolf, E. A.
AU - Janssen, X.
AU - Lauwers, J.
AU - Beaudette, F.
AU - Charlot, C.
AU - Davignon, O.
AU - Granier de Cassagnac, R.
AU - Nguyen, M.
AU - Ochando, C.
AU - Paganini, P.
AU - Salerno, R.
AU - Sirois, Y.
AU - Zabi, A.
AU - Zghiche, A.
AU - Sauvan, J. B.
AU - De Wit, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s)
PY - 2017/11/10
Y1 - 2017/11/10
N2 - A statistical combination of searches is presented for massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, and ZH boson pairs in proton–proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The data were taken at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to respective integrated luminosities of 19.7 and up to 2.7 fb−1. The results are interpreted in the context of heavy vector triplet and singlet models that mimic properties of composite-Higgs models predicting W′ and Z′ bosons decaying to WZ, WW, WH, and ZH bosons. A model with a bulk graviton that decays into WW and ZZ is also considered. This is the first combined search for WW, WZ, WH, and ZH resonances and yields lower limits on masses at 95% confidence level for W′ and Z′ singlets at 2.3 TeV, and for a triplet at 2.4 TeV. The limits on the production cross section of a narrow bulk graviton resonance with the curvature scale of the warped extra dimension k˜=0.5, in the mass range of 0.6 to 4.0 TeV, are the most stringent published to date.
AB - A statistical combination of searches is presented for massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, and ZH boson pairs in proton–proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The data were taken at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to respective integrated luminosities of 19.7 and up to 2.7 fb−1. The results are interpreted in the context of heavy vector triplet and singlet models that mimic properties of composite-Higgs models predicting W′ and Z′ bosons decaying to WZ, WW, WH, and ZH bosons. A model with a bulk graviton that decays into WW and ZZ is also considered. This is the first combined search for WW, WZ, WH, and ZH resonances and yields lower limits on masses at 95% confidence level for W′ and Z′ singlets at 2.3 TeV, and for a triplet at 2.4 TeV. The limits on the production cross section of a narrow bulk graviton resonance with the curvature scale of the warped extra dimension k˜=0.5, in the mass range of 0.6 to 4.0 TeV, are the most stringent published to date.
KW - CMS
KW - Combination
KW - Di-boson
KW - Physics
KW - Resonances
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85038864869
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.09.083
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.09.083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038864869
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 774
SP - 533
EP - 558
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -