Vector boson scattering and anomalous quartic couplings in final states with ℓνqq or ℓℓqq plus jets using proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
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A measurement is presented of the electroweak vector boson scattering production of ZV (V = W, Z) boson pairs associated with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1, were collected at the CERN LHC with the CMS detector during the 2016–2018 data-taking period. The analysis targets final states with a pair of isolated electrons or muons from Z boson decays and three or four jets, depending on the momentum of the vector boson that decays into quarks. Signal strength is measured for events characterized by a large invariant mass of two forward jets with a wide pseudorapidity gap between them. The electroweak production of ZV in association with two jets is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 1.3 (1.8) standard deviations. A combination of the analyses of ZV channel and the previously published WV channel in the lepton plus jets final state places constraints on effective field theory parameters that describe anomalous electroweak production of WW, WZ, and ZZ boson pairs in association with two jets. Several world best limits are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in terms of dimension-8 standard model effective field theory operators. © The Author(s) 2026.
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| dc.contributor.author | Hayrapetyan, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Makarenko, V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tumasyan, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adam, W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Andrejkovic, J.W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Benato, L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bergauer, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Damanakis, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dragicevic, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Giordano, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hussain, P.S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jeitler, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krammer, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Li, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Liko, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mikulec, I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schieck, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schwarz, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schöfbeck, R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shooshtari, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sonawane, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Waltenberger, W. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wulz, C.-E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Janssen, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kwon, H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ocampo Henao, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Laer, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Mechelen, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bierkens, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Breugelmans, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | D’Hondt, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dansana, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Moor, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Delcourt, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Heyen, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hong, Y. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kashko, P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lowette, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Makarenko, I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Müller, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Song, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tavernier, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tytgat, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Onsem, G.P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Putte, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vannerom, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bilin, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Clerbaux, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Das, A.K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Bruyn, I. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-10-18T20:25:33.644790226Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-10-18T20:25:33.644790226Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A measurement is presented of the electroweak vector boson scattering production of ZV (V = W, Z) boson pairs associated with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1, were collected at the CERN LHC with the CMS detector during the 2016–2018 data-taking period. The analysis targets final states with a pair of isolated electrons or muons from Z boson decays and three or four jets, depending on the momentum of the vector boson that decays into quarks. Signal strength is measured for events characterized by a large invariant mass of two forward jets with a wide pseudorapidity gap between them. The electroweak production of ZV in association with two jets is measured with an observed (expected) significance of 1.3 (1.8) standard deviations. A combination of the analyses of ZV channel and the previously published WV channel in the lepton plus jets final state places constraints on effective field theory parameters that describe anomalous electroweak production of WW, WZ, and ZZ boson pairs in association with two jets. Several world best limits are set on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in terms of dimension-8 standard model effective field theory operators. © The Author(s) 2026. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding text 1: We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: SC (Armenia), BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); ERC PRG, TARISTU24-TK10 and MoER TK202 (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); SRNSF (Georgia); BMFTR, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIT and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LMTLT (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES, NSC, and NAWA (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MICIU/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (T\u00FCrkiye); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.A.). ; Funding text 2: Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos. 675440, 724704, 752730, 758316, 765710, 824093, 101115353, 101002207, 101001205, and COST Action CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Science Committee, project no. 22rl-037 (Armenia); the Fonds pour la Formation \u00E0 la Recherche dans l\u2019Industrie et dans l\u2019Agriculture (FRIA) and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek contract No. 1228724N (Belgium); the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No. 2023YFA1605804, and the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12061141002 (China); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, grant FR-22-985 (Georgia); the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), among others, under Germany\u2019s Excellence Strategy \u2013 EXC 2121 \u201CQuantum Universe\u201D \u2013 390833306, and under project number 400140256 \u2013 GRK2497; the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Project Number 2288 (Greece); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program \u2013 \u00DANKP, the NKFIH research grants K 131991, K 133046, K 138136, K 143460, K 143477, K 146913, K 146914, K 147048, 2020-2.2.1-ED-2021-00181, TKP2021-NKTA-64, and 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI-2024-00036 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; ICSC \u2013 National Research Center for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, FAIR \u2013 Future Artificial Intelligence Research, and CUP I53D23001070006 (Mission 4 Component 1), funded by the NextGenerationEU program (Italy); the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Education and Science, project no. 2022/WK/14, and the National Science Center, contracts Opus 2021/41/B/ST2/01369, 2021/43/B/ST2/01552, 2023/49/B/ST2/03273, and the NAWA contract BPN/PPO/2021/1/00011 (Poland); the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, grant CEECIND/01334/2018 (Portugal); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, ERDF/EU, \u201CEuropean Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR\u201D, and Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias (Spain); the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project, the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund program IND_FF_68_369_2300_097, and the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation, grant B39G680009 (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (U.S.A.). | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/jhep03(2026)022 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1029-8479 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 3 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-105033907259 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 22 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/10325 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 2026 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of High Energy Physics | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.subject | Hadron-Hadron Scattering | |
| dc.subject | Vector Boson Production | |
| dc.title | Vector boson scattering and anomalous quartic couplings in final states with ℓνqq or ℓℓqq plus jets using proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rdl.citation.scopus | 3 | |
| rdl.oa.status | gold | |
| rdl.source.index | SCOPUS |
