Abstract
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A measurement is presented of the cross section for the electroweak production of a Z boson and a photon in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV. The Z bosons are identified through their decays to electron or muon pairs. The measurement is based on data collected with the CMS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The electroweak contribution has a significance of 3.0 standard deviations, and the measured fiducial cross section is 1.86(-0.75)(+0.90)(stat)(-0.26)(+0.34)(syst) +/- 0.05(lumi) fb, while the summed electroweak and quantum chromodynamic total cross section in the same region is observed to be 5.94(-1.35)(+1.53) (stat)(-0.37)(+0.43)(syst) +/- 0.13(lumi) fb. Both measurements are consistent with the leading-order standard model predictions. Limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set based on the Z gamma mass distribution. (C) 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.
BMWFW and FWF; FNRS and FWO; CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP; MES; CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC; COLCIENCIAS; MSES and CSF; RPF; SENESCYT; MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF; Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3; BMBF, DFG, and HGF; GSRT; OTKA and NIH; DAE and DST; IPM; SFI; INFN; MSIP and NRF; LAS; MOE and UM; BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI; MBIE; PAEC; MSHE and NSC; FCT; JINR; MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR and RAEP; MESTD; SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI and FEDER; Swiss Funding Agencies; MST; ThEP-Center, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA; TUBITAK and TAEK; NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC; DOE and NSF. Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/13/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarin-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.