Published October 22, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of Wγ and Zγ production cross sections in pp collisions at √(s)=7 TeV and limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector

  • 1. Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br. (Germany)
  • 2. Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  • 3. Institut de Física d'Altes Energies and Departament de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 4. LAL, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay (France)
  • 5. Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 6. Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku (Azerbaijan)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (United States)
  • 8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  • 9. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (Canada)
  • 10. Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel)
  • 11. DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 12. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano (Italy)
  • 13. INFN Sezione di Milano (Italy)
  • 14. ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
  • 15. INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine (Italy)
  • 16. AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow (Poland)
  • 17. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)
  • 18. Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA (United States)

Description

This Letter presents measurements of l±νγ and l+l-γ (l=e,μ) production in 1.02 fb-1 of pp collision data recorded at √(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in the first half of 2011. Events dominated by Wγ and Zγ production with leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons are selected, and their production cross sections and kinematic properties are measured in several ranges of the photon transverse energy. The results are compared to Standard Model predictions and are used to determine limits on anomalous WWγ and ZZγ/Zγγ couplings.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.017

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.017;
arXiv
arXiv:1205.2531v1;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00961-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
717
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 49-69
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.