Study of exclusive two-photon production of $W^+W^-$ in $pp$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 7$$ TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings
Journal Article
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· Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive W+W$$-$$ production by photon-photon interactions, pp → p(*)W+W$$-$$p(*), at TeV is reported using data collected by the CMS detector with an integrated luminosity of 5.05 fb$$-$$1. Events are selected by requiring a μ±e∓ vertex with no additional associated charged tracks and dilepton transverse momentum pT(μ±e∓) > 30 GeV. Two events passing all selection requirements are observed in the data, compared to a standard model expectation of 2.2 ± 0.4 signal events with 0.84 ± 0.15 background. The tail of the dilepton pT distribution is studied for deviations from the standard model. No events are observed with pT > 100 GeV. Model-independent upper limits are computed and compared to predictions involving anomalous quartic gauge couplings. The limits on the parameters α$$W\atop{0,C}$$/Λ2 with a dipole form factor and an energy cutoff Λcutoff = 500 GeV are of the order of 10$$-$$4.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- Contributing Organization:
- CMS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1347950
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-13-241-CMS; CMS-FSQ-12-010; CERN-PH-EP-2013-084; arXiv:1305.5596; 1235421
- Journal Information:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 2013; ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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