Measurement of W^+W^− production and search for the Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Abstract
A measurement of W^+W^− production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and a search for the Higgs boson are reported. The W^+W^− candidates are selected in events with two leptons, either electrons or muons. The measurement is performed using LHC data recorded with the CMS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb^(−1). The pp → W^+W^− cross section is measured to be 41.1±15.3 (stat)±5.8(syst)±4.5(lumi)pb consistent with the standard model prediction. Limits on WWγ and WWZ anomalous triple gauge couplings are set. The search for the standard model Higgs boson in the W^+W^− decay mode does not reveal any evidence of excess above backgrounds. Limits are set on the production of the Higgs boson in the context of the standard model and in the presence of a sequential fourth family of fermions with high masses. In the latter context, a Higgs boson with mass between 144 and 207 GeV/c^2 is ruled out at 95% confidence level.
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© 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. Received 1 March 2011; revised 18 March 2011; accepted 23 March 2011. Available online 25 March 2011. Editor: M. Doser. Dedicated to the memory of Ulrich Baur. We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLPFAI (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Associazione per lo Sviluppo Scientifico e Tecnologico del Piemonte (Italy); the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); and the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium).Attached Files
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- FMSR (Austria)
- FNRS (Belgium)
- FWO (Belgium)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- CAPES (Brazil)
- FAPERJ (Brazil)
- FAPESP (Brazil)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN (China)
- CAS (China)
- MoST (China)
- NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- Academy of Sciences (Estonia)
- NICPB (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland (Finland)
- ME (Finland)
- HIP (Finland)
- CEA (France)
- CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA (Hungary)
- NKTH (Hungary)
- DAE (India)
- DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- SFI (Ireland)
- INFN (Italy)
- NRF (Korea)
- WCU (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- CINVESTAV (Mexico)
- CONACyT (Mexico)
- SEP (Mexico)
- UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- SCSR (Poland)
- FCT (Portugal)
- JINR (Armenia)
- JINR (Georgia)
- JINR (Ukraine)
- JINR (Uzbekistan)
- MST (Russia)
- MAE (Russia)
- MSTD (Serbia)
- MICINN (Spain)
- CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- NSC (Taipei)
- TUBITAK (Turkey)
- TAEK (Turkey)
- STFC (United Kingdom)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie-Curie programme
- European Research Council (European Union)
- Leventis Foundation
- A. P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Associazione per lo Sviluppo Scientifico e Tecnologico del Piemonte (Italy)
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie doorWetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
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