17–24 Jul 2013
KTH and Stockholm University Campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Measurement of WZ production with the ATLAS detector and constraints on associated triple gauge couplings

18 Jul 2013, 15:00
15m
F2 (KTH Campus)

F2

KTH Campus

Talk presentation Top and Electroweak Physics Top and Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Advait Neel Nagarkar (Ohio State University (US))

Description

The measurement of the WZ diboson production cross section in 7 and 8 TeV protonproton interactions is reported from the ATLAS experiment. The measurement is derived from events in which bosons decay leptonically with electrons, muons, and missing energy in the final state. The data are used to test the electroweak sector of the Standard Model and search for evidence for new phenomena. The cross section results are first obtained in phase space regions defined by the decay kinematics and then extrapolated to the full phase space. Differential and total cross sections for WZ production are compared to NLO predictions of the standard model and used to place constraints on anomalous triplegaugeboson couplings.

Primary author

Prof. Mark Oreglia (University of Chicago (US))

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