Search for massive resonances decaying into WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2017; no. 3; p. 1
• Main Authors: Ghete, V. M., Dvornikov, O., Poyraz, D., Caudron, A., Musich, M., Nuttens, C., Carvalho, W., Aleksandrov, A., Avila, C., Cabrera, A., Dejardin, M., Rander, J., Ortona, G., Paganini, P., Yilmaz, Y., Bloch, D., Le Bihan, A.-C., Toriashvili, T., Feld, L., Brodski, M., Dietz-Laursonn, E., Merschmeyer, M., Karacheban, O., Perieanu, A., Vanelderen, L., Giffels, M., Mildner, H., Daskalakis, G., Karancsi, J., Dey, S., Purohit, A., Mohanty, A. K., Aziz, T., Naseri, M., Lenzi, P., Piccolo, D., Ghezzi, A., Meridiani, P., Finco, L., Maselli, S., Radburn-Smith, B. C., Goh, J., Lee, J., Lopez-Fernandez, R., Shoaib, M., Bluj, M., Lloret Iglesias, L., Gavrilenko, M., Smirnov, V., Lokhtin, I., Bayshev, I., Redondo, I., Cabrillo, I. J., Dobson, M., Hoss, J., Amsler, C., Kilminster, B., Chao, Y., Hou, W.-S., Kiminsu, U., Kaya, M., Cussans, D., Bell, K. W., Brown, R. M., Hall, G., Garabedian, A., Hakala, J., Shalhout, S., Schnaible, C., Sani, M., Campagnari, C., Qu, H., Zhu, R. Y., Joshi, U., McBride, P., Merkel, P., Bortignon, P., Field, R. D., Mei, H., Colafranceschi, S., Gauthier, L., Zhang, J., Maravin, Y., Tonwar, S. C., Nourbakhsh, S., Bartek, R., Stieger, B., Smith, G., Puigh, D., Luo, J., Folgueras, S., Halkiadakis, E., Schnetzer, S., Rose, K., Perloff, A., Ulmer, K. A., Dudero, P. R., Neu, C., Belknap, D. A., Herndon, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Elementary Particles; High energy physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Relativity Theory; String Theory; Particle and resonance production; Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); proton-proton scattering
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2017)162

A bstract A search is presented for new massive resonances decaying to WW, WZ or ZZ bosons in ℓ ν q q ¯ and q q ¯ q q ¯ final states. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3-2.7 fb −1 recorded in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. Decays of spin-1 and spin-2 resonances into two vector bosons are sought in the mass range 0.6-4.0 TeV. No significant excess over the standard model background is observed. Combining the results of the ℓ ν q q ¯ and q q ¯ q q ¯ final states, cross section and mass exclusion limits are set for models that predict heavy spin-1 and spin-2 resonances. This is the first search for a narrow-width spin-2 resonance at s = 13 TeV.