par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego
;Bilin, Bugra
;Brun, Hugues
;Clerbaux, Barbara
;De Lentdecker, Gilles
;Delannoy, Hugo
;Dorney, Brian
;Fasanella, Giuseppe
;Favart, Laurent
;Goldouzian, Reza
;Grebenyuk, Anastasia
;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur
;Lenzi, Thomas
;Luetic, Jelena
;Postiau, Nicolas
;Starling, Elizabeth Rose
;Thomas, Laurent
;Vander Velde, Catherine
;Vanlaer, Pascal
;Vannerom, David
;Wang, Qun
; [et al.]
Référence Physical review letters, 121, 14, 141801
Publication Publié, 2018-10-04





















Référence Physical review letters, 121, 14, 141801
Publication Publié, 2018-10-04
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | This Letter presents the observation of the rare Z boson decay Z→ψ + -. Here, ψ represents contributions from direct J/ψ and ψ(2S)→J/ψX, + - is a pair of electrons or muons, and the J/ψ meson is detected via its decay to μ+μ-. The sample of proton-proton collision data, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The signal is observed with a significance in excess of 5 standard deviations. After subtraction of the ψ(2S)→J/ψX contribution, the ratio of the branching fraction of the exclusive decay Z→J/ψ + - to the decay Z→μ+μ-μ+μ- within a fiducial phase space is measured to be B(Z→J/ψ + -)/B(Z→μ+μ-μ+μ-)=0.67±0.18(stat)±0.05(syst). |