Search for triboson W±W±W∓ production in pp collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector
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2017
Authors
Aaboud, M.
Albert, Justin
David, Claire
Elliot, Alison A.
Fincke-Keeler, J.
Hamano, Kenji
Hill, Ewan Chin
Keeler, Richard
Kowalewski, Robert
Kuwertz, E. S.
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The European Physical Journal C
Abstract
This paper reports a search for triboson W±W±W∓ production in two decay channels (W±W±W∓→ℓ±νℓ±νℓ∓ν and W±W±W∓→ℓ±νℓ±νjj with ℓ=e,μ) in proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with exactly three charged leptons, or two leptons with the same electric charge in association with two jets, are selected. The total number of events observed in data is consistent with the Standard Model (SM) predictions. The observed 95% confidence level upper limit on the SM W±W±W∓ production cross section is found to be 730 fb with an expected limit of 560 fb in the absence of SM W±W±W∓ production. Limits are also set on WWWW anomalous quartic gauge couplings.
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Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; … & Zwalinski, L. (2017). Search for triboson W±W±W∓ production in pp collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C, 77(3), article 141. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4692-1