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# The Fifth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics conference (LHCP2017)

May 15 – 20, 2017
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Asia/Shanghai timezone
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## Studies of $Z\gamma$ electroweak production in association with a high-mass dijet system in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

May 16, 2017, 2:00 PM
2h
Haoran 102 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Xuhui Campus

### Speaker

Shu Li (Duke University (US))

### Description

The production of a $Z$ boson and a photon in association with a
high-mass dijet system is studied using 20.2 fb$^{-1}$ of
proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV
recorded with the ATLAS detector in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider.
Final states with a photon and a Z boson decaying into a pair of either electrons,
muons, or neutrinos are analysed. Electroweak and total $pp \to Z\gamma j j$
cross-sections are extracted in two fiducial regions with different sensitivities to
electroweak production processes. Quartic couplings of vector bosons are studied
in regions of phase space with an enhanced contribution from pure electroweak
production, sensitive to vector-boson scattering processes $VV \to Z\gamma$.
No deviations from Standard Model predictions are observed and constraints are placed on
anomalous couplings parameterized by higher-dimensional operators using effective field theory.

### Primary authors

Shu Li (Duke University (US)) Victoria Jane Martin (University of Edinburgh (GB))

### Presentation materials

 Proceeding ZyVBS_LHCP2017_Poster.pdf