TY - JOUR
T1 - Combination of searches for WW, WZ, and ZZ resonances in pppp collisions at s√=8s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Cox, Brian
AU - Watts, Stephen
AU - Wyatt, Terence
AU - Da Via, Cinzia
AU - Pater, Joleen
AU - Pilkington, Andrew
AU - Price, Darren
AU - Oh, Alexander
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Balli, Fabrice
AU - Barnes, Sarah
AU - Forti, Alessandra
AU - Iturbe Ponce, Julia
AU - Joshi, Kiran
AU - Keoshkerian, Houry
AU - Li, Xingguo
AU - Loebinger, Frederick
AU - Marsden, Stephen
AU - Masik, Jiri
PY - 2016/2/11
Y1 - 2016/2/11
N2 - The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to WW, WZ and ZZ final states in multiple decay channels using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=8 TeV. In the current study, the results of these searches are combined to provide a more stringent test of models predicting heavy resonances with couplings to vector bosons. Direct searches for a charged diboson resonance decaying to WZ in the ℓνℓ′ℓ′ (ℓ=μ,e), ℓℓqq¯, ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WZ bosons are compared with predictions of an extended gauge model with a heavy W′ boson. In addition, direct searches for a neutral diboson resonance decaying to WW and ZZ in the ℓℓqq¯, ℓνqq¯, and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WW and ZZ bosons are compared with predictions for a heavy, spin-2 graviton in an extended Randall–Sundrum model where the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the extra dimension.
AB - The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to WW, WZ and ZZ final states in multiple decay channels using 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at s=8 TeV. In the current study, the results of these searches are combined to provide a more stringent test of models predicting heavy resonances with couplings to vector bosons. Direct searches for a charged diboson resonance decaying to WZ in the ℓνℓ′ℓ′ (ℓ=μ,e), ℓℓqq¯, ℓνqq¯ and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WZ bosons are compared with predictions of an extended gauge model with a heavy W′ boson. In addition, direct searches for a neutral diboson resonance decaying to WW and ZZ in the ℓℓqq¯, ℓνqq¯, and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WW and ZZ bosons are compared with predictions for a heavy, spin-2 graviton in an extended Randall–Sundrum model where the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the extra dimension.
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015
M3 - Article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 755
SP - 285
EP - 305
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 -