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TY - JOUR
T1 - Combination of searches for WW, WZ, and ZZ resonances in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Barton, Adam Edward
AU - Beattie, Michael
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann
AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin Eamonn
AU - Love, Peter Allan
AU - Maddocks, Harvey
AU - Skinner, Malcolm
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James William
AU - Wharton, Andy
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
PY - 2016/4/10
Y1 - 2016/4/10
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 ν ( = μ, e), qq¯, νqq¯ 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 qq¯, νqq¯, 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 ν ( = μ, e), qq¯, νqq¯ 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 qq¯, νqq¯, 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 - Journal article
VL - 755
SP - 285
EP - 305
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
SN - 0370-2693
ER -