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Search for high-mass resonances in $Z\gamma \rightarrow e^+e^-\gamma/\mu^+\mu^-\gamma$ final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}$

A search for a heavy resonance decaying to $Z\gamma$, with the Z boson further decaying to pairs of electrons or muons is presented. The search makes use of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $2.7~\mathrm{fb}^{...

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Autor principal: CMS Collaboration
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2141740
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Sumario:A search for a heavy resonance decaying to $Z\gamma$, with the Z boson further decaying to pairs of electrons or muons is presented. The search makes use of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $2.7~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$. The analysis extracts the background directly from data, through an unbinned likelihood fit. No signifcant excess over the background-only hypothesis is observed, therefore limits at $95\%$ confidence level are set on the production cross section of particles with a mass between $350~\mathrm{GeV}$ and $2~\mathrm{TeV}$, with two different assumptions on the resonance width.