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Physics Letters B 773 (2017) 563–584
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Physics Letters B
www.elsevier.com/locate/physletb
Search for leptophobic Z
bosons decaying into four-lepton final states
in proton–proton collisions at
√
s = 8 TeV
.The CMS Collaboration
CERN, Switzerland
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
5 January 2017
Received
in revised form 30 April 2017
Accepted
24 August 2017
Available
online 6 September 2017
Editor:
M. Doser
Keywords:
LHC
CMS
Physics
Exotica
Z
Four leptons
A search for heavy narrow resonances decaying into four-lepton final states has been performed using
proton–proton collision data at
√
s = 8 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb
−1
. No excess of events over the standard model background expectation
is observed. Upper limits for a benchmark model on the product of cross section and branching fraction
for the production of these heavy narrow resonances are presented. The limit excludes leptophobic Z
bosons with masses below 2.5 TeV within the benchmark model. This is the first result to constrain a
leptophobic Z
resonance in the four-lepton channel.
© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP
3
.
1. Introduction
Extensions of the standard model (SM) that incorporate one or
more extra Abelian gauge groups predict the existence of one or
more neutral gauge bosons [1,2]. These occur naturally in most
grand unified theories. Heavy neutral bosons are also predicted in
models with extra spatial dimensions [3,4], e.g. Randall–Sundrum
models [5,6], where these resonances may arise from Kaluza–
Klein
excitations of a graviton. Searches for heavy neutral reso-
nances
at hadron colliders, and most recently at the CERN LHC,
are typically performed using the dijet [7–10], dilepton [11–14],
diphoton [15–17], diboson [18–24], and tt [25–28] final states.
The dilepton channel provides a clean signal compared with the
dijet and tt channels. However, in leptophobic Z
models, where
the Z
does not couple to SM leptons, the dilepton limits are not
applicable. Although searches based on the dijet final state re-
main
applicable, they suffer from large dijet background produced
by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) subprocesses. We extend the
search for heavy neutral vector bosons by considering possible Z
decays into new particles predicted by various theoretical exten-
sions
of the SM.
In this Letter, we report on a search for a leptophobic Z
reso-
nance
that decays into four leptons via cascade decays as described
E-mail address: cms-publication-committee-chair@cern.ch.
Fig. 1. Leading order Feynman diagram for the production and cascade decay of a Z
resonance to a four-lepton final state.
in Ref. [29]. In this model, the Z
is coupled to quark pairs but not
to lepton pairs, and can be produced with a large cross section at
the LHC. These non-standard Z
resonances also decay to pairs of
new scalar bosons (ϕ) each of which subsequently decays to pairs
of leptons (ϕ →
, where and
= eor μ). Fig. 1 shows the
leading-order Feynman diagram for the production of four-lepton
final states via a Z
resonance at a hadron collider. The reconstruc-
tion
of the ϕ bosons in the dilepton channel is inefficient if the
difference between Z
and ϕ masses is large and the two daughter
leptons are consequently highly collimated. In the following sec-
tions
we describe a technique to increase the selection efficiency.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.069
0370-2693/
© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by
SCOAP
3
.
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The analysis is a search for heavy narrow resonances decaying
into four isolated final state leptons. The benchmark model [29]
assumes
(/M < 1%), corresponding to a natural width of the Z
resonance that is much smaller than the detector resolution. The
following final states are considered: μμμμ, μμμe, μμee, μeee,
and eeee. The μμee, μμμe and μeee channels are included to al-
low
for the possibility of lepton flavor violation (LFV) [30–32] in
the decays of the new scalar bosons. In this Letter, we set limits
on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for pro-
duction
and decay to four leptons, and interpret the results in the
context of the benchmark model described above [29].
2. The CMS detector
The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconduct-
ing
solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing a magnetic field
of 3.8 T. Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip
tracker, a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL),
and a brass and scintillator hadron calorimeter (HCAL). Each de-
tector
is composed of a barrel and two endcap sections. Muons
are measured in gas-ionization detectors embedded in the steel
flux-return yoke outside the solenoid. Extensive forward calorime-
try
complements the coverage provided by the barrel and endcap
detectors.
Muons
are measured in the range |η| < 2.4with detection
planes made using three technologies: drift tubes, cathode strip
chambers, and resistive-plate chambers. Matching muons to tracks
measured in the silicon tracker results in a relative p
T
resolution
for muons with 20 < p
T
< 100 GeV of 1.3–2.0% in the barrel and
better than 6% in the endcaps. The p
T
resolution in the barrel is
better than 10% for muons with p
T
up to 1TeV [33].
The
ECAL consists of 75 848 crystals that provide coverage in
pseudorapidity |η| < 1.48 in a barrel region (EB) and 1.48 < |η| <
3.00 in two endcap regions (EE). The electron momentum is es-
timated
by combining the energy measurement in the ECAL with
the momentum measurement in the tracker. The momentum reso-
lution
for electrons with transverse momentum p
T
≈ 45 GeV from
Z → e
+
e
−
decays ranges from 1.7% for nonshowering electrons
(approximately 30%) in the barrel region to 4.5% for showering
electrons (approximately 60%) in the endcaps [34].
A
more detailed description of the CMS detector, together with
a definition of the coordinate system used and the relevant kine-
matic
variables, can be found in Ref. [35].
3. The simulated event samples
The Monte Carlo (MC) generator program used to produce the
simulated event samples for the benchmark model is CalcHEP
3.4.1 [36] interfaced
with pythia 6.4.24 [37]. These samples are di-
vided
into five decay channels (μμμμ, μμμe, μμee, μeee, eeee)
for different Z
boson masses (m
Z
) ranging from 250 to 3000 GeV
in
increments of 250 GeV. The benchmark model assumes that
new particles other than Z
and ϕ are heavy enough not to af-
fect
the production and decay of the Z
boson. Signal MC samples
are produced with six different values of the ϕ mass (m
ϕ
), with
m
ϕ
= 50 GeV used as the reference mass value in the interpre-
tation
of the results. An important feature of this analysis is the
presence of a “boosted signature” associated with the collimation
of the two leptons coming from the same parent particle and re-
sulting
from the large difference between m
Z
and m
ϕ
. In addition,
samples are generated with m
ϕ
masses of 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40%
of m
Z
, for which, in most cases, the contribution from the boosted
signature is less important. The product of the leading order (LO)
signal cross section and branching fraction in each channel varies
with m
Z
(from 250 to 3000 GeV) as follows: μμμμ and eeee
from
0.8pb to 3.0 ×10
−6
pb, μμee from 12.3pb to 4.7 ×10
−5
pb,
and μμμe and μeee from 3.1pb to 1.2 × 10
−5
pb. The branching
fraction of ϕ →
is set to 1 and therefore only the leptonic de-
cay
channels are considered. These signal MC samples are used to
optimize event selection, evaluate signal efficiencies and calculate
exclusion limits.
The dominant SM background is the production of ZZ decay-
ing
into four leptons. The qq-induced ZZ production is generated
using the pythia event generator and the gg-induced production
using the gg2zz program [38]. Additional backgrounds from di-
boson
production (WW and WZ) are generated with pythia, and
from top quark production (tt, tW, and tW) are generated with
powheg 1.0 [39].
Other processes, such as ttZ and triboson produc-
tion
(WWγ , WWZ, WZZ, and ZZZ), are generated with MadGraph
5.1.3.30 [40].
Simulated event samples are normalized using the
integrated luminosity and higher order theoretical cross sections:
next-to-next-to-leading order for tt [41] and next-to-leading order
for ZZ [42] and the other backgrounds.
The MC samples are generated using the CTEQ6L [43] set of par-
ton
distribution functions (PDFs) and the pythia Z2* tune [44,45]
in
order to model the proton structure and the underlying event.
The samples are then processed with the full CMS detector sim-
ulation
software, based on Geant4 [46,47], which includes trigger
simulation and event reconstruction.
4. Event selection
The 2012 data set of proton–proton collisions at
√
s = 8 TeV,
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb
−1
, is used for
the analysis. Data are collected with lepton triggers with various
p
T
thresholds. The trigger used for the muon-enriched channels
(μμμμ, μμμe) requires the presence of at least one muon can-
didate
with p
T
> 40 GeV and |η| < 2.1. The trigger used for the
electron-enriched channels (μeee, eeee) requires two clusters of
energy deposits in the ECAL with transverse energy E
T
> 33 GeV
each.
For the μμee channel, the trigger requires both an electron
and a muon with p
T
> 22 GeV.
In the subsequent analysis, events are required to contain a
reconstructed primary vertex (PV) with at least four associated
tracks, and its r (z) coordinates are required to be within 2 (24) cm
of
the nominal interaction point. The PV is defined as the vertex
with the highest sum of p
2
T
for the associated tracks. We select the
events with four leptons in the final state, where the leptons are
identified by the selection criteria described below. The two lead-
ing
leptons are required to have p
T
> 45 GeV to ensure that the
trigger is fully efficient for the selected events. This requirement
has a negligible effect on the signal acceptance. The two sublead-
ing
leptons are required to have p
T
> 30 GeV. This choice balances
loss of efficiency against increased misidentification probability. All
four leptons must satisfy |η| < 2.4. No charge requirement is ap-
plied
to the lepton selection.
Muon
candidates are reconstructed by a combined fit including
hits in both tracking and muon detectors (“global muons”) [33].
The tracks associated with global muons are required to have the
following properties: at least one pixel detector hit, at least six
strip tracker layers with hits, at least one muon chamber hit, at
least two muon detector planes with muon segments, a transverse
impact parameter of the tracker track |d
xy
| < 0.2cm with respect
to the PV, a longitudinal distance of the tracker track |d
z
| < 0.5cm
with
respect to the PV, and δp
T
/p
T
< 0.3 where δp
T
is the uncer-
tainty
in the measured p
T
of the track. All muon candidates are
required to be isolated. A muon is considered isolated if the scalar
p
T
sum of all tracks within a cone of R < 0.3around the muon,
excluding the muon candidate itself, does not exceed 10% of the
The CMS Collaboration / Physics Letters B 773 (2017) 563–584 565
muon p
T
, where R =
(φ)
2
+(η)
2
. If there is a second lep-
ton
candidate within a cone R < 0.3, we remove its contribution.
An electron candidate is identified by matching a cluster in the
ECAL to a track in the silicon tracker [34]. Identification criteria
are applied to suppress jets misidentified as electrons. Electrons
are required to pass the following criteria: the profile of energy
deposition in the ECAL should be consistent with an electron, the
sum of HCAL energy deposits behind the ECAL cluster should be
less than 10% of the associated ECAL deposit, the track associated
with the cluster should have no more than one hit missing in the
pixel detector layers and |d
xy
| should be less than 0.02 cm with
respect to the selected PV. All electron candidates are required to
be isolated using the following definition: within a cone R < 0.3
around
the track of the electron candidate, the p
T
sum of all other
tracks is required to be less than 5 GeV and the E
T
sum of the en-
ergies
of the calorimeter deposits that are not associated with the
candidate is required to be less than 5% of the candidate’s E
T
. This
differs from the isolation requirement of 3% in Ref. [13], because
of the inefficiency (of approximately 6% at electron E
T
= 1 TeV)
caused by overlapping electrons due to the high Lorentz boost of
the ϕ boson (m
ϕ
= 50 GeV). In addition, if the direction of the sec-
ond
lepton candidate falls within the isolation cone of the first
(R < 0.3), the contributions it makes to both p
T
and E
T
are sub-
tracted
when imposing the isolation requirements.
The
kinematic distributions of the final-state particles are sim-
ilar
for all five channels. The final state consists of two leading
leptons with high p
T
and two subleading leptons with relatively
low p
T
. The two leptons from the same parent ϕ boson can be
highly Lorentz boosted if m
ϕ
is significantly smaller than m
Z
. This
feature is generally found for high-mass (m
Z
> 1 TeV) samples in
the case of m
ϕ
= 50 GeV. This boosted signature introduces a sig-
nificant
inefficiency for the event selection except for the LFV case
(ϕ decaying into eμ). To take into account the boosted signature
for ϕ decaying into μμ, one of the muon candidates selected by
the above criteria is allowed to be reconstructed only as a tracker
muon, a track in the tracker matched to track segments in the
muon system (“tracker muons”) [33], if the two muons are as close
as R < 0.4. In such exceptional cases, the requirements of at least
one muon chamber hit and at least two muon detector planes with
muon segments are not applied to the tracker muon.
The
boosted signature for a ϕ decaying into ee is much more
complicated since the electrons can easily merge into a single
cluster in the ECAL. In this case, only one electron candidate is
reconstructed from the two original electrons. The probability for
having a merged candidate is about 50% with m
Z
= 3 TeV and
m
ϕ
= 50 GeV. These events would be rejected by the four-lepton
requirement, introducing a large signal inefficiency. To select such
events, an electron candidate having a ratio of ECAL cluster en-
ergy
to track momentum larger than 1.5 and a second track with
p
T
> 30 GeV within a cone of R(electron, track) < 0.25, is consid-
ered
as a “merged electron”. Events are accepted with three (two)
leptons if they contain one (two) merged electron(s), since each
merged electron is considered to contribute two electrons to the
total. In order to avoid significant misidentification, merged elec-
trons
are only considered if the ECAL cluster energy is bigger than
500 GeV.
The
dominant background in this analysis arises from ZZ events
decaying into four leptons. To suppress this background, events
with two oppositely charged same-flavor lepton pairs are rejected
if the mass of the lepton pair, m
, is in the range 89–93 GeV. The
Zmass window is made as narrow as possible in order to min-
imise
degradation of the signal efficiency in the case of m
ϕ
≈ m
Z
.
This requirement results in negligible signal efficiency loss for
m
Z
> 500 GeV. At lower masses, the efficiency loss increases and
is approximately 20 (7)% at m
Z
= 250 GeV for the eeee (μμμμ)
channel. More than 70% (30%) of the ZZ background is rejected by
the mass window veto requirement in the muon (electron) chan-
nel.
This requirement is not applied to the merged electron case,
thus accounting for the difference in rejection efficiency for the
two channels.
The
event selection efficiency is 50–70% (μμμμ), 55–65%
(μμμe and μμee) and 45–65% (μeee and eeee) throughout the
range m
Z
> 1 TeV for m
ϕ
= 50 GeV. Below m
Z
= 1 TeV, the effi-
ciency
decreases rapidly because of the effect on the acceptance
of the kinematic requirements. Heavier m
ϕ
values correspond to a
less boosted signature and therefore are selected with a higher ef-
ficiency.
For m
Z
> 2TeV, the efficiency for the other m
ϕ
samples is
approximately 10–15% (1–5%) higher in the electron (muon) chan-
nels
than for the m
ϕ
= 50 GeV scenario, where the range of values
reflects the variation with m
Z
. For m
Z
< 1 TeV, the contribution
from boosted events is not significant and the efficiency is similar
for all values of m
ϕ
considered.
5. Background estimation
Most of the SM backgrounds are suppressed by requiring four
isolated high-quality lepton candidates. As discussed above, the
dominant background is from ZZ events decaying into four leptons.
Other backgrounds originate from top quark events with two gen-
uine
leptons and two lepton candidates arising from misidentified
jets, and from WW (WZ) events that contain two (one) misidenti-
fied
or nonprompt leptons from jets. In the case of triboson pro-
duction,
there may be four genuine leptons in the event. These
backgrounds are estimated using MC simulation.
The
contribution from events with more than two leptons aris-
ing
from misidentified jets is expected to be small because this
analysis requires four isolated leptons in the final state. This back-
ground
is estimated using the “misidentification rate” method de-
scribed
in Ref. [13]. The misidentification rate measured as a func-
tion
of electron E
T
in the barrel and endcap is applied to events
with electron candidates passing the trigger but failing the full se-
lection.
The contribution from jet backgrounds estimated using this
procedure is found to be negligible.
Fig. 2 sho
ws the four-lepton invariant mass (m
4
) distribution
for selected events. The number of observed events and estimated
backgrounds are summarized in Table 1. As shown in the figure
and table, the distribution of observed events is in agreement with
the expected backgrounds. The table shows two different mass
ranges. In the region m
4
> 1 TeV, the backgrounds from SM pro-
cesses
are very small, typically less than one event.
6. Results
No excess of events is observed in the data sample compared
to the SM expectations and exclusion limits at 95% confidence
level (CL) are calculated in the context of the benchmark model.
The signal region consists of events with four leptons (e or μ)
with |η| < 2.4: the two leading (subleading) leptons are required
to have p
T
> 45 (30) GeV. A Bayesian approach is adopted with a
likelihood function defined with a signal strength modifier, a prior
probability, and a set of nuisance parameters. The prior probabil-
ity
distribution for the signal cross section is positive and uniform,
since this is known to result in good frequentist coverage proper-
ties.
The systematic uncertainties associated with the backgrounds,
selection efficiency and luminosity are treated as nuisance param-
eters
with log-normal prior distributions [48]. A limit on the signal
contribution is derived by interpreting the likelihood function as a
probability distribution and integrating over this. The coverage of
the 95% CL assigned to the limit has been checked using a Markov
chain Monte Carlo method.
566 The CMS Collaboration / Physics Letters B 773 (2017) 563–584
Fig. 2. The m
4
spectrum for the combination of the five studied channels. The points with vertical bars represent the data and the associated statistical uncertainties; the
histograms represent the expectations from SM processes; “Top quark” denotes the sum of the events for tt, tW, ttZ processes; “EW” denotes the sum of the events from
WW, WZ, WWγ , WWZ, WZZ, and ZZZ processes. The inset shows the expectation from the benchmark model for a signal at m
Z
= 2.5 TeV with m
ϕ
= 50 GeV.
Table 1
Summary
of the observed yield and expected backgrounds for all channels, where N
obs
is the number of observed events
in data. The total background (N
tot
) is the sum of three different backgrounds that are estimated using MC simulations;
N
ZZ
refers to the background from ZZ events; N
t
is the background from tt, single top quark, and ttZ production; N
EW
is
the background from WW and WZ, and triple gauge boson production. The quoted uncertainties are statistical only.
Channel 0.1 < m
4
< 1.0TeV m
4
> 1.0TeV
N
obs
SM backgrounds N
obs
N
tot
N
ZZ
N
t
N
EW
N
tot
Z
→ μμμμ 34.9± 0.3 0.9 ± 0.5 – 5.9 ± 0.6 0 –
Z
→ μμμe6 0.4± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.6 1.2 ± 0.3 2.9 ± 0.7 0 –
Z
→ μμee 12 9.3 ± 0.4 3.0 ± 1.5 1.2 ± 0.3 13.5 ± 1.6 0 0.1 ± 0.1
Z
→ μeee 2 0.2 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.2 1.2 ± 0.2 0 0.1 ± 0.1
Z
→ eeee 9 15.0 ± 0.5 0.2 ± 0.1 0.2 ± 0.1 15.4 ± 0.5 0 0.2 ± 0.1
Combined 32 29.9
± 0.7 5.7 ± 1.9 3.3 ± 0.5 38.9 ± 2.1 0 0.4 ± 0.2
The systematic uncertainties are dominated by the uncertainties
in the background estimates and in the lepton selection efficien-
cies.
The uncertainty in the MC estimation of the main background
cross section (ZZ and tt) arising from higher-order QCD correc-
tions
and choice of PDFs is 15%. In order to be conservative, we
choose to double this figure and assign an uncertainty of 30%
from this source. The systematic uncertainty in the muon selection
efficiency including reconstruction, identification, and isolation is
0.5% [33]. The uncertainties in the electron selection efficiency
are 0.7% (0.6%) for electrons below 100 GeV in EB (EE) and 1.4%
(0.4%) for electrons above 100 GeV in EB (EE) [13]. The uncertain-
ties
due to the lepton efficiency in both signal and background
yields vary between 2.2% and 2.7% as a function of m
4
. Includ-
ing
the effect of the merged lepton signature, a total uncertainty
of 10% in the event selection efficiency is assigned for each chan-
nel.
The impact of the uncertainty in the electron energy scale on
signal (background) yield is 1% (0.5%) [13]. Uncertainties in the
muon momentum scale and mass resolutions are below 0.1% [33].
The uncertainty in the integrated luminosity is assigned to be 2.6%
[49]. In this analysis, the statistical uncertainties are dominant and
the systematic uncertainties have a small impact on the results.
We tested the robustness of the limits by doubling the values as-
sumed
for the systematic uncertainties. We observed a negligible
change in the calculated limits, and conclude that the limits are
insensitive to any underestimation of the systematic uncertainties.
Limits on the product of cross section and branching fraction
are set in the context of the benchmark model as a function of
m
4
. The natural width of the Z
resonance is assumed to be
smaller than the mass resolution of the detector in all channels.
The detector resolution in the μμμμ channel varies from 1.1%
at m
4
= 250 GeV to 7.5% at m
4
= 3 TeV, and it has a constant
value of about 0.6% over this range in the eeee channel. In the
limit calculation, we set the mass window to be six times the
mass resolution centred around the signal mass point considered.
A counting experiment is performed for the limit calculation. Fig. 3
shows
the upper limits on the product of the cross section and
branching fraction, for the combination of all five channels, for the
mass range considered in the benchmark model of Ref. [29]. In the
framework of this model, we translate these cross section upper
limits into lower limits on the Z
boson mass. For the combina-
tion
of the five channels, the value obtained for this lower mass
limit is 2.5TeV. The black solid (dashed) line indicates the observed
(expected) 95% CL upper limits, the inner (outer) band indicates
the ±1 (2) standard deviation uncertainty in the expected limits,
and the blue dashed line shows the theoretical Z
cross section
for m
ϕ
= 50 GeV. This theoretical cross section is calculated un-
der
the benchmark model assumption that the branching fraction
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