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    Search for a resonance decaying to a W boson and a photon in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV using leptonic W boson decays
    (Springer Nature, 2024-09-25) Hayrapetyan A; Tumasyan A; Adam W; Andrejkovic JW; Bergauer T; Chatterjee S; Damanakis K; Dragicevic M; Hussain PS; Jeitler M; Krammer N; Li A; Liko D; Mikulec I; Schieck J; Schöfbeck R; Schwarz D; Sonawane M; Templ S; Waltenberger W; Wulz CE; Janssen T; Van Laer T; Van Mechelen P; Breugelmans N; D’Hondt J; Dansana S; De Moor A; Delcourt M; Heyen F; Lowette S; Makarenko I; Müller D; Tavernier S; Tytgat M; Van Onsem GP; Van Putte S; Vannerom D; Bilin B; Clerbaux B; Das AK; De Lentdecker G; Evard H; Favart L; Gianneios P; Jaramillo J; Khalilzadeh A; Khan FA; Lee K; Mahdavikhorrami M; Malara A; Paredes S; Shahzad MA; Thomas L; Vanden Bemden M; Vander Velde C; Vanlaer P; De Coen M; Dobur D; Gokbulut G; Hong Y; Knolle J; Lambrecht L; Marckx D; Mota Amarilo K; Samalan A; Skovpen K; Van Den Bossche N; van der Linden J; Wezenbeek L; Benecke A; Bethani A; Bruno G; Caputo C; De Favereau De Jeneret J; Delaere C; Donertas IS; Giammanco A; Guzel AO; Jain S; Lemaitre V; Lidrych J; Mastrapasqua P; Tran TT; Wertz S; Alves GA; Alves Gallo Pereira M; Coelho E; Correia Silva G; Hensel C; Menezes De Oliveira T; Mora Herrera C; Moraes A; Rebello Teles P; Soeiro M; Vilela Pereira A; Aldá Júnior WL; Barroso Ferreira Filho M; Brandao Malbouisson H; Carvalho W
    A search for a new charged particle X with mass between 0.3 and 2.0 TeV decaying to a W boson and a photon is presented, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Particle X has electric charge ±1 and is assumed to have spin 0. The search is performed using the electron and muon decays of the W boson. No significant excess above the predicted background is observed. The upper limit at 95% confidence level on the product of the production cross section of the X and its branching fraction to a W boson and a photon is found to be 94 (137) fb for a 0.3 TeV resonance and 0.75 (0.81) fb for a 2.0 TeV resonance, for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%). This search presents the most stringent constraints to date on the existence of such resonances across the probed mass range. A statistical combination with an earlier study based on the hadronic decay mode of the W boson is also performed, and the upper limit at 95% confidence level for a 2.0 TeV resonance is reduced to 0.50 (0.63) fb for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%).
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    Transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at √s = 0.9 and 2.36TeV
    (SPRINGER, 1/01/2010) Khachatryan V; Sirunyan AM; Tumasyan A; Adam W; Bergauer T; Dragicevic M; Erö J; Friedl M; Frühwirth R; Ghete VM; Hammer J; Hänsel S; Hoch M; Hörmann N; Hrubec J; Jeitler M; Kasieczka G; Krammer M; Liko D; Mikulec I; Pernicka M; Rohringer H; Schöfbeck R; Strauss J; Taurok A; Teischinger F; Waltenberger W; Walzel G; Widl E; Wulz CE; Mossolov V; Shumeiko N; Suarez Gonzalez J; Benucci L; De Wolf EA; Hashemi M; Janssen X; Maes T; Mucibello L; Ochesanu S; Rougny R; Selvaggi M; Van Haevermaet H; Van Mechelen P; Van Remortel N; Adler V; Beauceron S; D’Hondt J; Devroede O; Kalogeropoulos A; Maes J; Mozer MU; Tavernier S; Van Doninck W; Van Mulders P; Villella I; Chabert EC; Charaf O; Clerbaux B; De Lentdecker G; Dero V; Gay APR; Hammad GH; Marage PE; Vander Velde C; Vanlaer P; Wickens J; Grunewald M; Klein B; Marinov A; Ryckbosch D; Thyssen F; Tytgat M; Vanelderen L; Verwilligen P; Walsh S; Basegmez S; Bruno G; Caudron J; Cortina Gil E; De Favereau De Jeneret J; Delaere C; Demin P; Favart D; Giammanco A; Grégoire G; Hollar J; Lemaitre V; Maltoni F; Militaru O; Ovyn S; Piotrzkowski K; Quertenmont L; Schul N; Beliy N; Caebergs T; Daubie E; Herquet P; Alves GA; Pol ME
    Measurements of inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions are presented for proton-proton collisions at √s = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector during the LHC commissioning in December 2009. For non-single-diffractive interactions, the average charged-hadron transverse momentum is measured to be 0:46 ± 0:01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 0.9 TeV and 0:50 ± 0:01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 2.36 TeV, for pseudorapidities between -2:4 and +2:4. At these energies, the measured pseudorapidity densities in the central region, dNch/dη| |η|>0.5, are 3:48±0:02 (stat.) ± 0.13 (syst.) and 4:47±0:04 (stat.) ± 0.16 (syst.), respectively. The results at 0.9 TeV are in agreement with previous measurements and con- firm the expectation of near equal hadron production in pp̄ and pp collisions. The results at 2.36 TeV represent the highest-energy measurements at a particle collider to date.