Measurement of the Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and limits on anomalous Z-Z-gamma and Z-gamma-gamma trilinear gauge boson couplings

The CMS collaboration
Phys.Lett.B 760 (2016) 448-468, 2016.

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. A measurement of the Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV is presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. This measurement is based on the observation of events with large missing energy and with a single photon with transverse momentum above 145 GeV and absolute pseudorapidity in the range |eta| < 1.44. The measured Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section, 52.7 +/- 2.1(stat) +/- 6.4 (syst) +/- 1.4 (lumi) fb, agrees well with the standard model prediction of 50.0 +2.4 -2.2 fb. A study of the photon transverse momentum spectrum yields the most stringent limits to date on the anomalous Z-Z-gamma and Z-gamma-gamma trilinear gauge boson couplings The fiducial region is defined as: - pTphoton > 145 GeV - |etaPhoton| < 1.44.

  • Table 1

    Data from Section 6

    10.17182/hepdata.74458.v1/t1

    Z gamma -> nu nu gamma production cross section.

  • Table 2

    Data from Table 3

    10.17182/hepdata.74458.v1/t2

    One-dimensional 95% CL limits on ZVgamma anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from the Z gamma -> nu nu gamma channel.

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