A search for a new charged particle X with mass between 0.3 and 2.0TeV decaying to a W boson and a photon is presented, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, 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 0.3TeV resonance and 0.75 (0.81) fb for a 2.0TeV 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 2.0TeV resonance is reduced to 0.50 (0.63) fb for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%).

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

Primavera, F.;Carlin, R.;Margoni, M.;Migliorini, M.;Pazzini, J.;Ronchese, P.;Rossin, R.;Simonetto, F.;Tosi, M.;Triossi, A.;Zanetti, M.;Zotto, P.;
2024

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A search for a new charged particle X with mass between 0.3 and 2.0TeV decaying to a W boson and a photon is presented, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, 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 0.3TeV resonance and 0.75 (0.81) fb for a 2.0TeV 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 2.0TeV resonance is reduced to 0.50 (0.63) fb for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%).
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