Measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Abstract

The first measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign ({W}^{±}{W}^{±}) boson pairs in proton-proton collisions are reported. The measurements are based on a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of (13\phantom{\rule{0.25em}{0ex}}\text{TeV}), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of (137\phantom{\rule{0.25em}{0ex}}{\text{fb}}^{-1}). Events are selected by requiring exactly two same-sign leptons, electrons or muons, moderate missing transverse momentum, and two jets with a large rapidity separation and a large dijet mass to enhance the contribution of same-sign ({W}^{±}{W}^{±}) scattering events. An observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit of 1.17 (0.88) fbis set on the production cross section for longitudinally polarized same-sign ({W}^{±}{W}^{±}) boson pairs. The electroweak production of same-sign ({W}^{±}{W}^{±}) boson pairs with at least one of the W bosons longitudinally polarized is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 2.3 (3.1) standard deviations.

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Keywords
CMS, Diboson, Electroweak, Polarized, Longitudinal, WEAK-INTERACTIONS, HIGH-ENERGIES, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Nuclear, Physics, Particles & Fields, Physics
Citation
Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Escalante Del Valle, A., Frühwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Pitters, F. M., Rad, N., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Spanring, M., Templ, S., … Vetens, W. (2021). Measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV. Physics Letters. Part B, 812(136018), 136018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.136018