Search for high-mass exclusive $γγ$ $\to$ WW and $γγ$ $\to$ ZZ production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration; TOTEM Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2023)229

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Search for high-mass exclusive $γ γ$ $\to$ WW and $γ γ$ $\to$ ZZ production in proton-proton collisions at $s$ = 13 TeV

arXiv:2211.16320 · doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2023)229

Abstract

A search is performed for exclusive high-mass $γ γ$ $\to$ WW and $γ γ$ $\to$ ZZ production in proton-proton collisions using intact forward protons reconstructed in near-beam detectors, with both weak bosons decaying into boosted and merged jets. The analysis is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS and TOTEM experiments at $s$ = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 fb $^{- 1}$ . No excess above the standard model background prediction is observed, and upper limits are set on the pp $\to$ pWWp and pp $\to$ pZZp cross sections in a fiducial region defined by the diboson invariant mass $m$ (VV) $<$ 1 TeV (with V = W, Z) and proton fractional momentum loss 0.04 $<$ $ξ$ $<$ 0.20. The results are interpreted as new limits on dimension-6 and dimension-8 anomalous quartic gauge couplings.

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Search for high-mass exclusive $γ γ$ $\to$ WW and $γ γ$ $\to$ ZZ production in proton-proton collisions at $s$ = 13 TeV

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