Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into same-sign W boson pairs with the ATLAS detector
Affiliations
- 1 54Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco.
- 2 144CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
- 3 170Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.
- 4 Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 5 174LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.
- 6 136Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
- 7 218Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 8 60Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 9 206Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- 10 212Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- 11 211Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 12 8High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL USA.
- 13 94INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Sezione di Trieste, Udine, Italy.
- 14 95ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- 15 214International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- 16 125Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland.
- 17 164Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL USA.
- 18 157Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
- 19 16Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 20 193Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK.
- 21 195Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA.
- 22 38Department of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
- 23 182Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 24 187Departamento de Física Teorica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
- 25 118Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 26 109INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
- 27 110Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
- 28 128Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
- 29 139Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden.
- 30 75Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 31 153P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- 32 31Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 33 32INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 34 228Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada.
- 35 72INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 36 131Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
- 37 162Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 38 56CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 39 37Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
- 40 12Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece.
- 41 190Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 42 99INFN Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy.
- 43 57Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA.
- 44 198Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
- 45 173Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA.
- 46 29School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- 47 101INFN Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy.
- 48 102Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy.
- 49 79SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
- 50 226Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
- 51 26Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA USA.
- 52 120Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro COPPE/EE/IF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 53 177Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
- 54 35Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA USA.
- 55 148Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA.
- 56 184Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- 57 67Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany.
- 58 199Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
- 59 13Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.
- 60 87Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 61 28Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 62 100Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
- 63 86Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 64 58LPC, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
- 65 163Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 66 59Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY USA.
- 67 165Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 68 166Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 69 105INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 70 223Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA.
- 71 107INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 72 123KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 73 149Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA.
- 74 70Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.
- 75 152Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 76 116University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA.
- 77 135School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
- 78 46Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- 79 33Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
- 80 154Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
- 81 142Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- 82 224Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 83 44Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA.
- 84 42Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- 85 47Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 86 225Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL USA.
- 87 201Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
- 88 82Department of Modern Physics and State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
- 89 20Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- 90 IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 91 97INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
- 92 98Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
- 93 108Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 94 127Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.
- 95 202Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada.
- 96 235Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA.
- 97 138Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA USA.
- 98 232Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 99 179Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.
- 100 233Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA.
- 101 234Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Fachgruppe Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
- 102 147School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia.
- 103 76Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
- 104 77INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
- 105 158Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Munich, Germany.
- 106 203SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA USA.
- 107 84School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, KLPPAC-MoE, SKLPPC, Shanghai, China.
- 108 111INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 109 141Departamento de Física Teorica C-15 and CIAFF, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 110 132Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
- 111 180Konstantinov Nuclear Physics Institute of National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", PNPI, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 112 55Faculté des sciences, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
- 113 168Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA.
- 114 178LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
- 115 222Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA USA.
- 116 74II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
- 117 73Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- 118 17Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
- 119 14Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 120 205Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA.
- 121 137Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK.
- 122 50Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Canada.
- 123 11Physics Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 124 155National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia.
- 125 51Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies-Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
- 126 LAPP, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy, France.
- 127 9Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA.
- 128 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA.
- 129 65Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 130 66Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 131 143School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
- 132 181Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
- 133 27Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- 134 106Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 135 69Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- 136 34Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA USA.
- 137 196Departamento de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 138 156D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 139 192State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, NRC KI, Protvino, Russia.
- 140 90Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
- 141 91Department of Physics and Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
- 142 19Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
- 143 45Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 144 10Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX USA.
- 145 215Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 146 197Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
- 147 43Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
- 148 25Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 149 176Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- 150 133Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
- 151 68Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
- 152 208Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- 153 2Physics Department, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY USA.
- 154 4Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 155 93Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN USA.
- 156 61Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy.
- 157 62INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 158 171Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK USA.
- 159 191Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 160 48Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 161 186Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
- 162 15Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 163 112Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 164 119Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
- 165 81Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.
- 166 89Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT Hong Kong.
- 167 219TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 168 117Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA.
- 169 22Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
- 170 21Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- 171 124Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
- 172 23University of Chinese Academy of Science (UCAS), Beijing, China.
- 173 92Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
- 174 213Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 175 189Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 176 146Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 177 172Palacký University, RCPTM, Joint Laboratory of Optics, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
- 178 134Department of Experimental Particle Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute and Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 179 71SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- 180 96Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy.
- 181 80LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France.
- 182 183Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 183 227Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 184 167Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY USA.
- 185 83Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science and Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
- 186 3Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada.
- 187 210High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 188 121Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), São João del Rei, Brazil.
- 189 122Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 190 78II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
- 191 1Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
- 192 53Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Université Cadi Ayyad, LPHEA-Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco.
- 193 230Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
- 194 103INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 195 104Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 196 63Physics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX USA.
- 197 159Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan.
- 198 185Centro de Física Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 199 41West University in Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania.
- 200 161Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM USA.
- 201 221Division of Physics and Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 202 236Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 203 229Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
- 204 150B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
- 205 200Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.
- 206 49School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 207 175Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
- 208 160Graduate School of Science and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
- 209 151Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus.
- 210 216Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- 211 INFN-TIFPA, Povo, Italy.
- 212 114Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy.
- 213 64Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX USA.
- 214 115Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 215 209E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 216 231Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 217 220Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 218 204Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 219 130Research Center for Advanced Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 220 217Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 221 24Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 222 5Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 223 Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China.
- 224 207School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 225 30Centro de Investigaciónes, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 226 88Faculty of Applied Information Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 227 169Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
- 228 126Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
- 229 39Physics Department, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- 230 140Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France.
- 231 6Division of Physics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.
- 232 129Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan.
- 233 36Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
- PMID: 30872971
- PMCID: PMC6383730
- DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6500-y
Search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into same-sign W boson pairs with the ATLAS detector
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 54Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco.
- 2 144CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
- 3 170Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA.
- 4 Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 5 174LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.
- 6 136Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
- 7 218Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 8 60Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 9 206Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- 10 212Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- 11 211Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 12 8High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL USA.
- 13 94INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Sezione di Trieste, Udine, Italy.
- 14 95ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- 15 214International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- 16 125Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland.
- 17 164Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL USA.
- 18 157Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
- 19 16Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 20 193Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK.
- 21 195Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA.
- 22 38Department of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
- 23 182Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 24 187Departamento de Física Teorica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
- 25 118Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 26 109INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
- 27 110Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
- 28 128Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
- 29 139Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden.
- 30 75Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 31 153P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- 32 31Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 33 32INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 34 228Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada.
- 35 72INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 36 131Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
- 37 162Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 38 56CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 39 37Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
- 40 12Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece.
- 41 190Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 42 99INFN Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy.
- 43 57Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA.
- 44 198Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
- 45 173Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA.
- 46 29School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- 47 101INFN Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy.
- 48 102Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy.
- 49 79SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
- 50 226Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
- 51 26Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA USA.
- 52 120Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro COPPE/EE/IF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 53 177Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
- 54 35Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA USA.
- 55 148Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA.
- 56 184Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- 57 67Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany.
- 58 199Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
- 59 13Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX USA.
- 60 87Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 61 28Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 62 100Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
- 63 86Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 64 58LPC, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
- 65 163Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 66 59Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY USA.
- 67 165Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 68 166Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 69 105INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 70 223Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA USA.
- 71 107INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 72 123KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 73 149Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA.
- 74 70Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.
- 75 152Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 76 116University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA.
- 77 135School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
- 78 46Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- 79 33Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
- 80 154Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
- 81 142Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- 82 224Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 83 44Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA.
- 84 42Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- 85 47Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 86 225Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL USA.
- 87 201Department Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
- 88 82Department of Modern Physics and State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
- 89 20Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- 90 IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 91 97INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
- 92 98Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
- 93 108Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 94 127Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.
- 95 202Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada.
- 96 235Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA.
- 97 138Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA USA.
- 98 232Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 99 179Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.
- 100 233Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA.
- 101 234Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Fachgruppe Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
- 102 147School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia.
- 103 76Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
- 104 77INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
- 105 158Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Munich, Germany.
- 106 203SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA USA.
- 107 84School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, KLPPAC-MoE, SKLPPC, Shanghai, China.
- 108 111INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 109 141Departamento de Física Teorica C-15 and CIAFF, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 110 132Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
- 111 180Konstantinov Nuclear Physics Institute of National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", PNPI, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 112 55Faculté des sciences, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
- 113 168Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA.
- 114 178LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
- 115 222Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA USA.
- 116 74II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
- 117 73Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- 118 17Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
- 119 14Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 120 205Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA.
- 121 137Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK.
- 122 50Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Canada.
- 123 11Physics Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 124 155National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia.
- 125 51Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies-Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
- 126 LAPP, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy, France.
- 127 9Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA.
- 128 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA.
- 129 65Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 130 66Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 131 143School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
- 132 181Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
- 133 27Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- 134 106Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 135 69Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- 136 34Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA USA.
- 137 196Departamento de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 138 156D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 139 192State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, NRC KI, Protvino, Russia.
- 140 90Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
- 141 91Department of Physics and Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
- 142 19Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
- 143 45Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- 145 215Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 146 197Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
- 147 43Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
- 148 25Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 149 176Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- 150 133Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
- 151 68Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
- 152 208Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- 153 2Physics Department, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY USA.
- 154 4Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 155 93Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN USA.
- 156 61Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy.
- 157 62INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 158 171Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK USA.
- 159 191Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 160 48Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 161 186Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
- 162 15Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 163 112Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
- 164 119Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
- 165 81Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.
- 166 89Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT Hong Kong.
- 167 219TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 168 117Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA.
- 169 22Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
- 170 21Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- 171 124Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
- 172 23University of Chinese Academy of Science (UCAS), Beijing, China.
- 173 92Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
- 174 213Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 175 189Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 176 146Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 177 172Palacký University, RCPTM, Joint Laboratory of Optics, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
- 178 134Department of Experimental Particle Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute and Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 179 71SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- 180 96Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy.
- 181 80LPSC, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France.
- 182 183Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
- 183 227Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 184 167Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY USA.
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- 186 3Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada.
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- 188 121Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), São João del Rei, Brazil.
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- 190 78II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
- 191 1Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
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- 193 230Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
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- 205 200Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.
- 206 49School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 207 175Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
- 208 160Graduate School of Science and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
- 209 151Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus.
- 210 216Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- 211 INFN-TIFPA, Povo, Italy.
- 212 114Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy.
- 213 64Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX USA.
- 214 115Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 215 209E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 216 231Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 217 220Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 218 204Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 219 130Research Center for Advanced Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 220 217Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 221 24Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 222 5Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 223 Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China.
- 224 207School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 225 30Centro de Investigaciónes, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 226 88Faculty of Applied Information Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 227 169Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
- 228 126Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
- 229 39Physics Department, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- 230 140Centre de Calcul de l'Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France.
- 231 6Division of Physics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.
- 232 129Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan.
- 233 36Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
- PMID: 30872971
- PMCID: PMC6383730
- DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6500-y
Abstract
A search for doubly charged scalar bosons decaying into W boson pairs is presented. It uses a data sample from proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. This search is guided by a model that includes an extension of the Higgs sector through a scalar triplet, leading to a rich phenomenology that includes doubly charged scalar bosons . Those bosons are produced in pairs in proton-proton collisions and decay predominantly into electroweak gauge bosons . Experimental signatures with several leptons, missing transverse energy and jets are explored. No significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions are found. The parameter space of the benchmark model is excluded at 95% confidence level for bosons with masses between 200 and 220 GeV.
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