par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego ;Bilin, Bugra ;Brun, Hugues ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Dorney, Brian ;Fasanella, Giuseppe ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur ;Luetic, Jelena ;Popov, Andrey ;Postiau, Nicolas ;Starling, Elizabeth Rose ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Vannerom, David ;Wang, Qun ; [et al.]
Référence Physical review letters, 122, 15, 151802
Publication Publié, 2019-04-18
Référence Physical review letters, 122, 15, 151802
Publication Publié, 2019-04-18
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb−1, have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01×10−6 is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction. |