Measurement of the electroweak production of Zγ and two jets in proton-proton collisions at s =13 TeV and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings

Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Dragicevic, M.; Escalante Del Valle, A.; Frühwirth, R.; Jeitler, M.; Krammer, N.; Lechner, L.; Liko, D.; Mikulec, I.; Paulitsch, P.; Pitters, F. M.; Schieck, J.; Schöfbeck, R.; Spanring, M.; Templ, S.; Waltenberger, W.; Wulz, C. E.; Chekhovsky, V.; Litomin, A.; Makarenko, V.; Darwish, M. R.; De Wolf, E. A.; Janssen, T.; Kello, T.; Lelek, A.; Rejeb Sfar, H.; Van Mechelen, P.; Van Putte, S.; Van Remortel, N.; Blekman, F.; Bols, E. S.; D'Hondt, J.; Delcourt, M.; El Faham, H.; Lowette, S.; Moortgat, S.; Morton, A.; Müller, D.; Sahasransu, A. R.; Tavernier, S.; Van Doninck, W.; Van Mulders, P.; Beghin, D.; Bilin, B.; Clerbaux, B.; De Lentdecker, G.; Favart, L.; Grebenyuk, A.; Kalsi, A. K.; Lee, K.; Mahdavikhorrami, M.; Makarenko, I.; Moureaux, L.; Pétré, L.; Popov, A.; Postiau, N.; Starling, E.; Thomas, L.; Vanden Bemden, M.; Vander Velde, C.; Vanlaer, P.; Vannerom, D.; Wezenbeek, L.; Cornelis, T.; Dobur, D.; Knolle, J.; Lambrecht, L.; Mestdach, G.; Niedziela, M.; Roskas, C.; Samalan, A.; Skovpen, K.; Tytgat, M.; Verbeke, W.; Vermassen, B.; Vit, M.; Bethani, A.; Bruno, G.; Bury, F.; Caputo, C.; David, P.; Delaere, C.; Donertas, I. S.; Giammanco, A.; Jaffel, K.; Jain, Sa; Lemaitre, V.; Mondal, K.; Prisciandaro, J.; Taliercio, A.; Teklishyn, M.; Tran, T. T.; Vischia, P.; Wertz, S.; Alves, G. A.; Hensel, C.; Moscatelli, F.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.072001

The first observation of the electroweak (EW) production of a Z boson, a photon, and two forward jets (Z?jj) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. A data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016-2018 is used. The measured fiducial cross section for EW Z?jj is ?EW=5.21±0.52(stat)±0.56(syst) fb=5.21±0.76 fb. Single-differential cross sections in photon, leading lepton, and leading jet transverse momenta, and double-differential cross sections in mjj and |??jj| are also measured. Exclusion limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are derived at 95% confidence level in terms of the effective field theory operators M0 to M5, M7, T0 to T2, and T5 to T9.