The author presents a measurement of p$ar{p}$ → Z? + X → e+e-? + X production using proton-antiproton collisions data collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Z? production provides a direct test of the triple neutral gauge couplings. A measurement of Z? production cross section and search for anomalous ZZ? and Z?? couplings are presented. The data presented are from 1.1 fb-1 of p$ar{p}$ integrated luminosity collected at the CDF Detector. Electrons from Z decays are selected with Et > 20 Gev. Photons (Et > 7 GeV) are required to be well-separated from the electrons. There are 390 ee? candidate events found with 1.1 fb-1 of data, compared to the SM prediction of 375.3 ± 25.2 events. The Standard Model prediction for the cross section for p$ar{p}$ → e+e-? + X production at √s = 1.96 TeV is 4.5 ± 0.4 pb. The measured cross section is 4.7 ± 0.6 pb. The cross section and kinematic distributions of the ee? events are in good agreement with theoretical predictions. Limits on the ZZ? and Z?? couplings are extracted using the photon Et distribution of ee? events with mee? > 100 GeV/c2. These are the first limits measured using CDF Run II data. These limits provide important test of the interaction of the photon and the Z boson.

The cross section for the production of Z[gamma] in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV is measured based on data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb-1. Events with an oppositely-charged pair of muons or electrons together with an isolated photon are selected. Furthermore, the differential cross section as a function of the photon transverse momentum is measured inclusively and exclusively, where the exclusive selection applies a veto on central jets. These observed cross sections are compatible with the expectations of next-to-next-to-leading-order quantum chromodynamics. As a result, limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings of ZZ[gamma] and Z[gamma][gamma] are set that improve on previous experimental results obtained with the charged lepton decay modes of the Z boson.

I present a measurement of the W±Z production cross section in the leptonic final states in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings, using 4.64 fb-1 of data collected using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The production cross section has been determined to be 19.0+1.4-1.3(stat.)±0.9(syst.)±0.4(lumi.) pb, in agreement with the Standard Model (SM) expectation of 17.6+1.1-1.0 pb. A search for anomalous trilinear gauge couplings has been conducted and limits have been set at the 95% confidence level; the result is consistent with the SM couplings.

A measurement of the inclusive ZZ production cross section and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at [arrow]" = 8 TeV are presented. The analysis is based on a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb−1, collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurements are performed in the leptonic decay modes ZZ 2!lll'l', where l = e, [mu] and l' = e, [mu], [tau]. The measured total cross section [sigma](pp 2!ZZ) = 7.7 " 0.5 (stat)-0.4+0.5 (syst) " 0.4 (theo) " 0.2 (lumi) pb, for both Z bosons produced in the mass range 60

This Letter presents a search for new physics manifested as anomalous triple gauge boson couplings in WW and WZ diboson production in proton-proton collisions. The search is performed using events containing a W boson that decays leptonically and a W or Z boson whose decay products are merged into a single reconstructed jet. The data, collected at sqrt(s) =8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19 inverse femtobarns. No evidence for anomalous triple gauge couplings is found and the following 95% confidence level limits are set on their values: lambda ([-0.011,0.011]), Delta kappa[gamma] ([-0.044,0.063]), and Delta g[1,Z] ([-0.0087,0.024]). These limits are also translated into their effective field theory equivalents: c[WWW]/ Lambda^2, ([-2.7,2.7] TeV^{-2}), c[B]/ Lambda^2, ([-14,17] TeV^{-2}), and c[W]/ Lambda^2, ([-2.0,5.7] TeV^{-2}).

A measurement of the inclusive ZZ production cross section and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV are presented. The analysis is based on a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb−1, collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurements are performed in the leptonic decay modes ZZ → lll'l', where l = e,? and l' = e,?,?. The measured total cross section ?(pp → ZZ) = 7.7 ± 0.5 (stat)-0.4+0.5 (syst) ± 0.4 (theo) ± 0.2 (lumi) pb, for both Z bosons produced in the mass range 60 msubZ/sub 120 GeV, is consistent with standard model predictions. Differential cross sections are measured and well described by the theoretical predictions. As a result, the invariant mass distribution of the four-lepton system is used to set limits on anomalous ZZZ and ZZ? couplings at the 95% confidence level: –0.004 fsub4/subsupZ/sup 0.004, –0.004 fsub5/subsupZ/sup 0.004, –0.005 fsub4

Studies of four-lepton production in proton-proton collisions, pp → (Z/[gamma]*)(Z/[gamma]*)→ 4l, where l = e or [mu], using data collected during 2016-2018 (Run II) are presented. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb^(−1) at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. All reported measurements use the 2l2l' final states, where l,l' = e or [mu]. The total ZZ cross section for all events with two Z bosons in the mass range 60-120 GeV is measured and found to be [sigma](pp → ZZ) = 17.2 ± 0.3 (stat) ± 0.5 (syst) ± 0.4 (theo) ± 0.3 (lumi) pb. Differentialcross sections are measured as functions of a number of kinematic observables. Allthese results agree with standard model predictions. Searches for anomalous triplegauge couplings are performed, and the four-lepton invariant mass distributions areused to set the most stringent limits to date on a number of parameters affectingneutral gauge boson interactionsl

The production of Z bosons with one or two isolated high-energy photons is studied using pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. The analyses use a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2012 LHC data taking. The Z? and Z?? production cross sections are measured with leptonic (e+e-, ?+?-, ?????????) decays of the Z boson, in extended fiducial regions defined in terms of the lepton and photon acceptance. They are then compared to cross-section predictions from the Standard Model, where the sources of the photons are radiation off initial-state quarks and radiative Z-boson decay to charged leptons, and from fragmentation of final-state quarks and gluons into photons. The yields of events with photon transverse energy ET > 250 GeV from l+l-? events and with ET > 400 GeV from ?????????? events are used to search for anomalous triple gauge-boson couplings ZZ? and Z??. The yields of events with diphoton invariant mass m?? > 200 GeV from l+l-?? events and with m?? > 300 GeV from ??????????? events are used to search for anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings ZZ?? and Z???. As a result, no deviations from Standard Model predictions are observed and limits are placed on parameters used to describe anomalous triple and quartic gauge-boson couplings.

This dissertation presents measurements of W+/-Z production in ATLAS data collected in 2011 for pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and the combination of ATLAS and CMS data for the extraction of ZZ anomalous triple gauge coupling 95% confidence intervals. Confidence intervals for anomalous triple gauge boson couplings are derived using the transverse momentum distribution of Z bosons. These values agree well with the standard model expectation. The extraction of ZZ anomalous triple gauge coupling 95% confidence intervals used 4.6 fb-1 of 7 TeV data recorded by ATLAS and 5.0 fb-1 of 7 TeV data recorded by CMS. This is the first combined measurement of the ZZ anomalous triple gauge couplings between ATLAS and CMS. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).