@article{10902/38545,
year = {2025},
month = {8},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/38545},
abstract = {The first search for a heavy neutral spin-1 gauge boson (Z') with nonuniversal fermion couplings produced via vector boson fusion processes and decaying to tau leptons or W bosons is presented. The analysis is performed using LHC data at V¯s = 13 TeV collected from 2016 to 2018 with the CMS experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1. The data are consistent with the standard model predictions. Upper limits are set on the product of the cross section for production of the Z' boson and its branching fraction to tt or WW. The presence of a Z' boson decaying to t+t- (W-W-) is excluded for masses up to 2.45(1.60) TeV, depending on the Z' boson coupling to standard model weak bosons, and assuming a Z' --> t+t- (W+W-) branching fraction of 50%.},
organization = {We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: SC (Armenia), BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF(Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); ERC PRG, RVTT3 and MoER TK202 (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); SRNSF (Georgia); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LMTLT (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP,CINVESTAV,CONACYT,LNS,SEP,andUASLPFAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC(Pakistan); MES andNSC(Poland); FCT(Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
publisher = {Physical Review Letters, 2025, 135(6), 061803},
title = {Search for a neutral gauge boson with nonuniversal fermion couplings in vector boson fusion processes in proton-proton collisions at V¯s = 13 TeV},
author = {Hayrapetyan, A. and Tumasyan, A. and Bhowmik, Sandeep and Blanco Fernández, Sergio and Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Ibán and Calderón Tazón, Alicia and Duarte Campderros, Jorge and Fernández García, Marcos and Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio and Lasaosa García, Clara and López Ruiz, Rubén and Martínez Rivero, Celso and Martínez Ruiz del Árbol, Pablo and Matorras Weinig, Francisco and Matorras Cuevas, Pablo and Navarrete Ramos, Efrén and Piedra Gómez, Jonatan and Scodellaro, Luca and Vila Álvarez, Iván and Vizán García, Jesús Manuel},
}