For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb(-1), have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01 x 10(-6) is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction

Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2019). Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 122(15) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802].

Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions

Benaglia, A.;Beschi, A.;Brivio, F.;Ciriolo, V.;Dinardo, M.  E.;Fiorendi, S.;Ghezzi, A.;Govoni, P.;Malberti, M.;Monti, F.;Moroni, L.;Paganoni, M.;Ragazzi, S.;Tabarelli de Fatis, T.;Zuolo, D.;Massironi, A.;Gerosa, R.;Lucchini, M.  T.;De Guio, F.;
2019

Abstract

For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb(-1), have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01 x 10(-6) is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction
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Physics, LHC, CMS
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2019
122
15
151802
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Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., et al. (2019). Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 122(15) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802].
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