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Evidence for exclusive γγ → W+ W− production and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in pp collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV

par Khachatryan, Vardan;Barria, Patrizia ;Brun, Hugues ;Caillol, Cécile ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Fang, Wenxing ;Fasanella, Giuseppe ;Favart, Laurent ;Goldouzian, Reza ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Karapostoli, Georgia ;Lenzi, Thomas ;Leonard, Alexandre ;Maerschalk, Thierry ;Marinov, Audrey ;Pernie, Luca ;Randle-Conde, Aidan Sean ;Seva, Tomislav ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Yonamine, Ryo ;Zenoni, Florian ;Zhang, Fengwangdong ; [et al.]
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2016, 8, 119
Publication Publié, 2016

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A search for exclusive or quasi-exclusive γγ → W+W− production, via pp → p(*)W+W−p(*) → p(*)μ±e∓p(*) at √s = 8 TeV, is reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. Events are selected by requiring the presence of an electron-muon pair with large transverse momentum pT(μ±e∓) > 30 GeV, and no associated charged particles detected from the same vertex. The 8 TeV results are combined with the previous 7 TeV results (obtained for 5.05 fb−1 of data). In the signal region, 13 (2) events are observed over an expected background of 3.9 ± 0.6 (0.84 ± 0.15) events for 8 (7) TeV, resulting in a combined excess of 3.4σ over the background-only hypothesis. The observed yields and kinematic distributions are compatible with the standard model prediction for exclusive and quasi-exclusive γγ → W+W− production. Upper limits on the anomalous quartic gauge coupling operators a0,C W (dimension-6) and fM0,1,2,3 (dimension-8), the most stringent to date, are derived from the measured dilepton transverse momentum spectrum. © 2016, The Author(s).