Measurement of same sign WW VBS processes at CMS with one hadronic tau in the final state
Pre-published on:
February 08, 2024
Published on:
March 21, 2024
Abstract
This contribution presents an investigation into the electroweak production of same-sign W boson pairs (ssWW) with a hadronically decaying tau lepton ($\tau_h$) in the final state. This study is based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, as recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, with an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. This work delves deeper into the electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking (EWSB) sector of the standard model (SM) of particle physics, focusing on Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) processes, which play a pivotal role in understanding the non-abelian structure of the SM. The article introduces a Machine Learning approach to enhance the identification of the final state in ssWW VBS processes. The results show an observed electroweak signal strength of $1.44_{−0.56}^{+0.63}$, corresponding to a signal significance of 2.74 standard deviations. The study concludes with the intention to explore the sensitivity to indirect New Physics effects using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.449.0322
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