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Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector

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Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abbott, DC; Abdinov, O; Abed Abud, A; Abeling, K; Abhayasinghe, DK; Abidi, SH; AbouZeid, OS; Abraham, NL; Abramowicz, H ...
Published in: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
November 10, 2019

A search for the production of three massive vector bosons in proton–proton collisions is performed using data at s=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in the years 2015–2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.8 fb−1. Events with two same-sign leptons ℓ (electrons or muons) and at least two reconstructed jets are selected to search for WWW→ℓνℓνqq. Events with three leptons without any same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pairs are used to search for WWW→ℓνℓνℓν, while events with three leptons and at least one same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair and one or more reconstructed jets are used to search for WWZ→ℓνqqℓℓ. Finally, events with four leptons are analysed to search for WWZ→ℓνℓνℓℓ and WZZ→qqℓℓℓℓ. Evidence for the joint production of three massive vector bosons is observed with a significance of 4.1 standard deviations, where the expectation is 3.1 standard deviations.

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Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

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0370-2693

Publication Date

November 10, 2019

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798

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics
 

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abdinov, O., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., … Araujo Pereira, R. (2019). Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134913
Aad, G., B. Abbott, D. C. Abbott, O. Abdinov, A. Abed Abud, K. Abeling, D. K. Abhayasinghe, et al. “Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector.” Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 798 (November 10, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134913.
Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abdinov O, Abed Abud A, Abeling K, et al. Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2019 Nov 10;798.
Aad, G., et al. “Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector.” Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 798, Nov. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134913.
Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abdinov O, Abed Abud A, Abeling K, Abhayasinghe DK, Abidi SH, AbouZeid OS, Abraham NL, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adachi S, Adam L, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Adelman J, Adersberger M, Adiguzel A, Adorni S, Adye T, Affolder AA, Afik Y, Agapopoulou C, Agaras MN, Aggarwal A, Agheorghiesei C, Aguilar-Saavedra JA, Ahmadov F, Ahmed WS, Ai X, Aielli G, Akatsuka S, Åkesson TPA, Akilli E, Akimov AV, Al Khoury K, Alberghi GL, Albert J, Alconada Verzini MJ, Alderweireldt S, Aleksa M, Aleksandrov IN, Alexa C, Alexandre D, Alexopoulos T, Alfonsi A, Alhroob M, Ali B, Alimonti G, Alison J, Alkire SP, Allaire C, Allbrooke BMM, Allen BW, Allport PP, Aloisio A, Alonso A, Alonso F, Alpigiani C, Alshehri AA, Alvarez Estevez M, Álvarez Piqueras D, Alviggi MG, Amaral Coutinho Y, Ambler A, Ambroz L, Amelung C, Amidei D, Amor Dos Santos SP, Amoroso S, Amrouche CS, An F, Anastopoulos C, Andari N, Andeen T, Anders CF, Anders JK, Andreazza A, Andrei V, Anelli CR, Angelidakis S, Angerami A, Anisenkov AV, Annovi A, Antel C, Anthony MT, Antonelli M, Antrim DJA, Anulli F, Aoki M, Aparisi Pozo JA, Aperio Bella L, Arabidze G, Araque JP, Araujo Ferraz V, Araujo Pereira R. Evidence for the production of three massive vector bosons with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2019 Nov 10;798.
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Published In

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

DOI

ISSN

0370-2693

Publication Date

November 10, 2019

Volume

798

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 49 Mathematical sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics