Fiducial and differential cross-section measurements of electroweak Wγjj production in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13311-6

Fiducial and differential cross-section measurements of electroweak Wγjj production in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

The observation of the electroweak production of a W boson and a photon in association with two jets, using pp collision data at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre of mass energy of s=13 TeV, is reported. The data were recorded by the ATLAS experiment from 2015 to 2018 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb-1. This process is sensitive to the quartic gauge boson couplings via the vector boson scattering mechanism and provides a stringent test of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Events are selected if they contain one electron or muon, missing transverse momentum, at least one photon, and two jets. Multivariate techniques are used to distinguish the electroweak Wγjj process from irreducible background processes. The observed significance of the electroweak Wγjj process is well above six standard deviations, compared to an expected significance of 6.3 standard deviations. Fiducial and differential cross sections are measured in a fiducial phase space close to the detector acceptance, which are in reasonable agreement with leading order Standard Model predictions from MadGraph5+Pythia8 and Sherpa. The results are used to constrain new physics effects in the context of an effective field theory.

Original language	English
Article number	1064
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	84
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13311-6
State	Published - Oct 2024

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Funders	Funder number
BSF-NSF
Australian Research Council
DRAC
La Caixa Banking Foundation
BMWFW
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
European Union, Future Artificial Intelligence Research
Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry
National Stroke Foundation
CEA-DRF
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Horizon 2020, ICSC-NextGenerationEU
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
INFN-CNAF
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
Leverhulme Trust
Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
PROMETEO
Neubauer Family Foundation
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
The Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Generalitat de Catalunya
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Austrian Science Fund
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Canarie
GridKA
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Göran Gustafssons Stiftelser
MIZŠ
European Commission
Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
EU-ESF
International Council of Shopping Centers
RGC
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Institutul de Fizică Atomică
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain
National Science and Technology Council
Irish Rugby Football Union
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Defence Science Institute
MNE
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Royal Society
Minerva Foundation
National Research Foundation
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
National Research Council Canada
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation
Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca	PRIN - 20223N7F8K - PNRR M4.C2.1.1
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse	KAW 2022.0358, KAW 2018.0157, KAW 2017.0100, KAW 2018.0458, KAW 2019.0447
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	PID2021-125273NB, RYC2021-031273-I, RYC2022-038164-I, RYC2020-030254-I, PCI2022-135018-2, RYC2019-028510-I
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	JP21H05085, JP22H04944, JP22H01227, JP22KK0227
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China	MOST-2023YFA1605700
National Natural Science Foundation of China	12275265, PRIMUS/21/SCI/017, 12175119, NSFC-12075060
Fundación BBVA	LEO22-1-603
H2020 European Research Council	ERC - 101002463
Norges Forskningsråd	RCN-314472
Norwegian Financial Mechanism	2014-2021
Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej	PPN/PPO/2020/1/00002/U/00001
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS
Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society	J1-3010
FAIR-NextGenerationEU	PE00000013
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	RPG-2020-004, PCEFP2_194658, NIF-R1-231091
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	DFG - CR 312/5-2, DFG - 469666862
Agence Nationale de la Recherche	ANR-20-CE31-0013, ANR-22-EDIR-0002, ANR-21-CE31-0013, ANR-21-CE31-0022
European Research Council	101089007, 948254
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico	1230987, 1230812, 1190886, 1210400
Vetenskapsrådet	VR 2018-00482, 2021-03651, VR 2022-04683, VR 2022-03845
UNCE	SCI/013
European Regional Development Fund	IDIFEDER/2018/048
GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana	CIDEGENT/2019/023, CIDEGENT/2019/027
MUCCA	CHIST-ERA-19-XAI-00
Investissements d’Avenir Labex	ANR-11-LABX-0012
U.S. Department of Energy	ECA DE-AC02-76SF00515
Narodowe Centrum Nauki	UMO-2022 /47/O/ST2/00148, UMO-2020/37/B/ST2/01043, UMO-2019/34/E/ST2/00393, 2021/42/E/ST2/00350, 2022/47/B/ST2/03059, UMO-2021/40/C/ST2/00187
North Dakota Game and Fish Department	CC-IN2P3
CERN-CZ	21/SCI/017

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