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Measurement of Zγ γ production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Measurement of Zγ γ production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, Diksha Garg and Usha Mallik
The European physical journal C, Particles and fields, Vol.83(6), 539
06/2023
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11579-8
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Abstract

Cross-sections for the production of a Z boson in association with two photons are measured in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The measurements use the electron and muon decay channels of the Z boson, and a fiducial phase-space region where the photons are not radiated from the leptons. The integrated Z (→ ℓℓ)γ γ cross-section is measured with a precision of 12% and differential cross-sections are measured as a function of six kinematic variables of the Z γ γ system. The data are compared with predictions from MC event generators which are accurate to up to next-to-leading order in QCD. The cross-section measurements are used to set limits on the coupling strengths of dimension-8 operators in the framework of an effective field theory
CERN LHC Coll channel cross section: measured coupling constant differential cross section: measured dilepton: transverse momentum dimension: 8 effective field theory electron: pair production energy dependence experimental results GeV-cms higher-order: 1 kinematics mass dependence mass spectrum: two-photon muon: pair production numerical calculations: Monte Carlo operator: higher-dimensional p p: colliding beams p p: scattering perturbation theory: higher-order phase space photon: pair production photon: transverse energy quantum chromodynamics S043AQC transverse momentum dependence Z0: associated production Z0: leptonic decay

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