Diboson Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

TL;DR

This review summarizes measurements of diboson production cross sections at the LHC at 7 TeV, testing Standard Model predictions and aiding Higgs and new physics studies, based on ATLAS and CMS data from 2011.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive combination and interpretation of diboson production results from ATLAS and CMS at 7 TeV, emphasizing precision tests of the Standard Model.

Findings

Measured diboson cross sections agree with SM predictions

Combined results improve the precision of electroweak tests

Insights support Higgs boson and new physics searches

Abstract

This review article summarizes results on the production cross section measurements of electroweak boson pairs ($WW$, $WZ$, $ZZ$, $W\gamma$ and $Z\gamma$) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in $pp$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=7$ \TeV. The two general-purpose detectors at the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, recorded an integrated luminosity of $5fb^{-1}$ in 2011, which offered the possibility to study the properties of diboson production to high precision. These measurements test predictions of the Standard Model (SM) in a new energy regime and are crucial for the understanding and the measurement of the SM Higgs boson and other new particles. In this review, special emphasis is drawn on the combination of results from both experiments and a common interpretation with respect to state-of-the-art SM predictions.