Observation of WZγ Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021802

Observation of WZγ Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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This Letter reports the observation of WZγ production and a measurement of its cross section using 140.1±1.2 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The WZγ production cross section, with both the W and Z bosons decaying leptonically, pp→WZγ→ℓ^{'}^{±}νℓ^{+}ℓ^{-}γ (ℓ^{(^{'})}=e, μ), is measured in a fiducial phase-space region defined such that the leptons and the photon have high transverse momentum and the photon is isolated. The cross section is found to be 2.01±0.30(stat)±0.16(syst) fb. The corresponding standard model predicted cross section calculated at next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics and at leading order in the electroweak coupling constant is 1.50±0.06 fb. The observed significance of the WZγ signal is 6.3σ, compared with an expected significance of 5.0σ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21802
Number of pages	1
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	132
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.021802
Publication status	Published - 12 Jan 2024

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