Measurement of WWZ and ZH Production Cross Sections at √s=13 and 13.6 TeV Show others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 2427 2025 (English) In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 135, no 9, article id 091802Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A measurement is presented of the cross section in proton-proton collisions for the production of two 𝑊 bosons and one 𝑍 boson. It is based on data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at center-of-mass energies √𝑠 =13 and 13.6 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 200 fb−1. Events with four charged leptons (electrons or muons) in the final state are selected. Both nonresonant 𝑊𝑊𝑍 production and 𝑍𝐻 production, with the Higgs boson decaying into two 𝑊 bosons, are reported. For the first time, the two processes are measured separately in a simultaneous fit. Combining the two modes, signal strengths relative to the standard model (SM) predictions of 0.75+0.34−0.29 and 1.74+0.71−0.60 are measured for √𝑠 =13 and 13.6 TeV, respectively. The observed (expected) significance for the triboson signal is 3.8 (2.5) standard deviations for √𝑠=13.6 TeV, thus providing the first evidence for triboson production at this center-of-mass energy. Combining the two modes and the two center-of-mass energies, the inclusive signal strength relative to the SM prediction is measured to be 1.03+0.31−0.28, with an observed (expected) significance of 4.5 (5.0) standard deviations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages American Physical Society, 2025. Vol. 135, no 9, article id 091802
National Category
Subatomic Physics
Research subject Machine Learning
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-114623 DOI: 10.1103/6z3d-zjw4 ISI: 001569377600002 PubMedID: 40952229 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105016054190 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-114623 DiVA, id: diva2:1997076
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