Search for new phenomena in the WW→lνl'ν'final state in pp collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad; T Abajyan; B Abbott; J Abdallah; S Abdel Khalek; AA Abdelalim; O Abdinov; R Aben; B Abi; M Abolins; OS AbouZeid; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; E Acerbi; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; TN Addy; J Adelman; S Adomeit; P Adragna; T Adye; S Aefsky; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Agustoni; M Aharrouche; SP Ahlen; F Ahles; A Ahmad; M Ahsan; G Aielli; T Akdogan; TPA A°kesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; MS Alam; MA Alam; J Albert; S Albrand; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; F Alessandria; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; BMM Allbrooke; PP Allport; SE Allwood-Spiers; J Almond; A Aloisio; R Alon; A Alonso; F Alonso; B Alvarez Gonzalez; MG Alviggi; K Amako; C Amelung; VV Ammosov; A Amorim; N Amram; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; XS Anduaga; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; A Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; M Aoki; S Aoun; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; ATH Arce; S Arfaoui; JF Arguin; E Arik; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; O Arnaez

Journal article

Search for new phenomena in the WW→lνl'ν'final state in pp collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, E Acerbi, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.040

Abstract

This Letter reports a search for a heavy particle that decays to WW using events produced in pp collisions at s=7TeV. The data were recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1. WW→ℓνℓ'ν'(ℓ, ℓ'=e or μ) final states are considered and the distribution of the transverse mass of the WW candidates is found to be consistent with Standard Model expectations. Upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio into W boson pairs are set for Randall-Sundrum and bulk Randall-Sundrum gravitons, which result in observed 95% CL lower limits on the masses of the two particles of 1.23 TeV and 0.84 TeV, respectively. © 2012 CERN.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Nadia Davidson Author

Anna Phan Author

Martin Sevior Author

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Grants

Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhl, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MERYS (MECTS), Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.