Search for $W$ boson decays to three charged pions
(2019) Physical Review Letters — Vol. 122, p. 151802 (2019)
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- For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data marc:recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb-1, have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01×10-6 is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction.
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Bondu, O., Bruno, G., Caputo, C., David, P., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., Giammanco, A., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Piotrzkowski, K., Saggio, A., Vidal Marono, M., Vischia, P., Zobec, J., CMS Collaboration, & et al. (2019). Search for $W$ boson decays to three charged pions. Physical Review Letters, 122, 151802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802 (Original work published 2019)