Author(s): Dias, F. ; Gadatsch, S. ; Gouzevich, M. ; Leonidopoulos, C. ; Novaes, S. F. [UNESP] ; Oliveira, A. ; Pierini, M. ; Tomei, T. [UNESP]
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/158834
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
University of Edinburgh
MIUR-FIRB
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK
We perform a statistical combination of the ATLAS and CMS results for the search of a heavy resonance decaying to a pair of vector bosons with the root s - 8 TeV datasets collected at the LHC. We take into account six searches in hadronic and semileptonic final states carried out by the two collaborations. We consider only public information provided by ATLAS and CMS in the HEPDATA database and in papers published in refereed journals. We interpret the combined results within the context of a few benchmark new physics models, such as models predicting the existence of a W' or a bulk RandallSundrum spin -2 resonance, for which we present exclusion limits, significances, p -values and best -fit cross sections. A heavy diboson resonance with a production cross section of 4-5 fb and mass between 1.9 and 2.0 TeV is the exotic scenario most consistent with the experimental results. Models in which a heavy resonance decays preferentially to a WW final state are disfavoured.
Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Univ Padua, Padua, Italy
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, Padua, Italy
Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
University of Edinburgh: 2014/50208-0
MIUR-FIRB: RBFR12H1MW
