Speaker
Andrea Bocci
(Duke University (US))
Description
The measurement of the ZZ diboson production cross section in 7 and 8 TeV protonproton
interactions is reported from the ATLAS experiment. The measurement is derived using purely
leptonically decaying bosons 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 ZZ production are compared to NLO predictions of the standard model and used to
place constraints on anomalous triplegaugeboson
couplings.
Author
Prof.
Mark Oreglia
(University of Chicago (US))
