Abstract

A measurement of the inclusive WW+WZ diboson production cross section in proton–proton collisions is reported, based on events containing a leptonically decaying W boson and exactly two jets. The data sample, collected at sqrt{s} = 7~mbox{TeV} with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. The measured value of the sum of the inclusive WW and WZ cross sections is σ(pp→WW+WZ)=68.9±8.7 (stat.)±9.7 (syst.)±1.5 (lum.) pb, consistent with the standard model prediction of 65.6±2.2 pb. This is the first measurement of WW+WZ production in pp collisions using this signature. No evidence for anomalous triple gauge couplings is found and upper limits are set on their magnitudes.

Highlights

  • The gauge symmetry of the standard model (SM) fixes the triple gauge boson couplings that determine the selfinteractions of W and Z bosons

  • Observation of anomalous triple gauge boson couplings would be an indication of physics beyond the SM

  • We report the first measurement of WW+WZ diboson production in pp collisions in the semileptonic final state at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where one W boson decays leptonically ( ν, with = e, μ) while the other boson (W or Z) decays hadronically, giving rise to two energetic jets in the final state

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Unconstrained 31.3 pb ± 5 % (NLO) [30] 163 pb ± 7 % (NLO) [31] 85 pb ± 5 % (NNLL) [32,33,34] 3.05 pb ± 4.3 % (NNLO) [35] ETmiss fit in data the same distribution after subtracting all SM contributions from data except for WW+WZ events. We generate the mjj pseudo-data for the SM processes, taking into account the correlations between the yields, and perform a fit to each pseudo-data mjj distribution The results for both the muon and electron channels indicate that there is a small bias (−8.6 % and −6.6 %) in the WW+WZ yield, corresponding to less than 0.4 standard deviations, and that the fit slightly overestimates the uncertainty on the yield. We observe 2700 ± 340 (stat.) ± 360 (syst.) WW+WZ events, in agreement with the SM expectation This result corresponds to a significance of 8.8 standard deviations when computed using a simple likelihood ratio [39], where the background yield uncertainties (Table 2) and errors on α, β (Eq (1)) are fixed to their fitted values. Data Fit χ 2/Ndof (probability) Acceptance × efficiency (Aε) Expected WW+WZ yield from simulation

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