par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego ;Bilin, Bugra ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Dorney, Brian ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur ;Makarenko, Inna ;Malara, Andrea ;Moureaux, Louis ;Pétré, Laurent ;Popov, Andrey ;Postiau, Nicolas ;Starling, Elizabeth Rose ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Vannerom, David ;Wezenbeek, Liam ; [et al.]
Référence Physical Review D, 102, 9, 092001
Publication Publié, 2020-03-01
Référence Physical Review D, 102, 9, 092001
Publication Publié, 2020-03-01
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | A measurement of the W+W- boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. The data used in this study are collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The W+W- candidate events are selected by requiring two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons). Two methods for reducing background contributions are employed. In the first one, a sequence of requirements on kinematic quantities is applied allowing a measurement of the total production cross section, 117.6±6.8 pb, which agrees well with the theoretical prediction. Fiducial cross sections are also reported for events with zero or one jet, and the change in the zero-jet fiducial cross section with the jet transverse momentum threshold is measured. Normalized differential cross sections are reported within the fiducial region. A second method for suppressing background contributions employs two random forest classifiers. The analysis based on this method includes a measurement of the total production cross section and also a measurement of the normalized jet multiplicity distribution in W+W- events. Finally, a dilepton invariant mass distribution is used to probe for physics beyond the standard model in the context of an effective field theory, and constraints on the presence of dimension-6 operators are derived. |