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Exclusive production of $W$ pairs in CMS

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v1

Abstract

We report the results on the search for exclusive production of WW pairs in the LHC with data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid detector in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV. The analysis comprises the two-photon production of a WW pairs, pppW+Wppνe±νμp{pp\to p\,W^{+}W^{-}\,p\to p\,\nu e^{\pm}\nu\mu^{\mp}\,p}. Two events are observed in data for pT()>p_{\textrm{\footnotesize T}}(\ell)> 4 GeV, η()<|\eta(\ell)|< 2.4 and m(μ±e)>m(\mu^{\pm}e^{\mp})> 20 GeV, in agreement with the standard model prediction of 2.2 ±\pm 0.4 signal events with 0.84 ±\pm 0.15 background events. Moreover, a study of the tail of the lepton pair transverse momentum distribution is performed to search for an evidence of anomalous quartic gauge couplings in the γγW+W\gamma\gamma\to W^{+}W^{-} vertex. As no events are observed in data, it results in a model-independent upper limits for the anomalous quartic gauge couplings a0,CW/Λ2a^{W}_{0,C}/\Lambda^{2}, which are of the order of 104^{-4}.

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@article{arxiv.1401.1993,
  title  = {Exclusive production of $W$ pairs in CMS},
  author = {Gustavo G. da Silveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.1993},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 12 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, Aug. 28th -- Sept. 5th, 2013