Evidence for electroweak production of four charged leptons and two jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

Abstract

Evidence is presented for the electroweak (EW) production of two jets (jj) in association with two Z bosons and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2016-2018, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb${}^{-1}$. The search is performed in the fully leptonic final state ZZ $\to$ $\ell \ell {\ell }^{\prime }{\ell }^{\prime }$, where $\ell ,{\ell }^{\prime }=$ e, $\mu$. The EW production of two jets in association with two Z bosons is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 4.0 (3.5) standard deviations. The cross sections for the EW production are measured in three fiducial volumes and the result is ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{EW}}$(pp $\to$ ZZjj $\to$ $\ell \ell {\ell }^{\prime }{\ell }^{\prime }$jj) = 0.33 ${}_{-0.10}^{+0.11}$ (stat) ${}_{-0.03}^{+0.04}$ (syst) fb in the most inclusive volume, in agreement with the standard model prediction of 0.275 $\pm$ 0.021 fb. Measurements of total cross sections for jj production in association with two Z bosons are also reported. Limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are derived in terms of the effective field theory operators T0, T1, T2, T8, and T9.

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