Search for high-mass W γ and Zγ resonances using hadronic W/Z boson decays from 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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2023

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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, D.C.
Abed Abud, A.
Abeling, K.
Abhayasinghe, D.K.
Abidi, S.H.
Aboulhorma, A.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.

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The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023; 2023(7):1-47

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The Atlas Collaboration … G. Aad … P. Jackson … A. X. Y. Kong … H. Potti … M. J. White … et al.

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A search for high-mass charged and neutral bosons decaying to W γ and Zγ final states is presented in this paper. The analysis uses a data sample of √s = 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector during LHC Run 2 operation. The sensitivity of the search is determined using models of the production and decay of spin-1 charged bosons and spin-0/2 neutral bosons. The range of resonance masses explored extends from 1.0 TeV to 6.8 TeV. At these high resonance masses, it is beneficial to target the hadronic decays of the W and Z bosons because of their large branching fractions. The decay products of the high-momentum W/Z bosons are strongly collimated and boosted-boson tagging techniques are employed to improve the sensitivity. No evidence of a signal above the Standard Model backgrounds is observed, and upper limits on the production cross-sections of these bosons times their branching fractions to W γ and Zγ are derived for various boson production models.

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© 2023 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

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