Search for a new heavy gauge-boson resonance decaying into a lepton and missing transverse momentum in 36 fb - 1 of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

Summary, in English

The results of a search for new heavy W′ bosons decaying to an electron or muon and a neutrino using proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV are presented. The dataset was collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb-1. As no excess of events above the Standard Model prediction is observed, the results are used to set upper limits on the W′ boson cross-section times branching ratio to an electron or muon and a neutrino as a function of the W′ mass. Assuming a W′ boson with the same couplings as the Standard Model W boson, W′ masses below 5.1 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level. © 2018, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.

• Author: M Aaboud; G Aad; B. Abbott; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; S. H. Abidi; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Caterina Doglioni; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Charles Kalderon; Else Lytken; Katja Mankinen; Ulf Mjörnmark; Trine Poulsen; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2018-05
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: European Physical Journal C
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 5
• Links: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047473545&doi=10.1140%2fepjc%2fs10052-018-5877-y&partnerID=40&md5=72cbeaa5f6c2a788b76b438b0ec3de4d; http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5877-y
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1434-6044