31 July 2017 to 4 August 2017
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Search for high-mass $Z\gamma$ and $W^{\pm}\gamma$ resonances using 36 $fb^{-1}$ of data from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

3 Aug 2017, 11:25
16m
Comitium (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Comitium

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Presentation Beyond Standard Model Beyond Standard Model

Speaker

Mr Wei Tang (Duke University)

Description

Results are presented from searches for massive boson resonances with decay modes $X\to$ $Z\gamma$ and $X^{\pm}\to$ $W^{\pm}\gamma$ using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. For the $Z\gamma$ channel, a high $E_T$ lepton trigger selects events where the Z boson is detected from decays to $e^+e^-$ and $\mu^+\mu^-$. These data are used to search for resonances with mass between 250 GeV and 2.4 TeV. The search is extended to higher X mass in the $X\to$ $Z\gamma$ and $X^{\pm}\to$ $W^{\pm}\gamma$ channels using hadronic decays of the W/Z bosons. The events are selected using a high $E_T$ photon trigger with a boosted Z/W boson reconstructed from merged di-jet clusters in a large radius jet. The data are used to search for resonances $X\to$ $Z\gamma$ with spins 0 and 2 and $X^{\pm}\to$ $W^{\pm}\gamma$ with spin 1.

Primary author

Mr Wei Tang (Duke University)

Co-author

Prof. Al Goshaw (Duke University)

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