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. |