TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Alvarez Piqueras, D. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Cerda Alberich, L. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Fernandez Martinez, P. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Jimenez Pena, J. AU - Kaci, M. AU - King, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Pedraza Lopez, S. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Romero Adam, E. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Martinez, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Combination of searches for WW, WZ, and ZZ resonances in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - Phys. Lett. B JO - Physics Letters B SP - 285 EP - 305 VL - 755 PB - Elsevier Science Bv AB - The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has performed searches for new, heavy bosons decaying to WW, WZ and ZZ final states in multiple decay channels using 20.3 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 8 TeV. In the current study, the results of these searches are combined to provide a more stringent test of models predicting heavy resonances with couplings to vector bosons. Direct searches for a charged diboson resonance decaying to WZ in the l nu l'l' (l = mu, e), llq (q) over bar, l nu q (q) over bar and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WZ bosons are compared with predictions of an extended gauge model with a heavy W' boson. In addition, direct searches for a neutral diboson resonance decaying to WW and ZZ in the llq (q) over bar, l nu q (q) over bar, and fully hadronic final states are combined and upper limits on the rate of production times branching ratio to the WW and ZZ bosons are compared with predictions for a heavy, spin-2 graviton in an extended Randall-Sundrum model where the Standard Model fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of the extra dimension. (C) 2016 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. SN - 0370-2693 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05099 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015 DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.015 LA - English N1 - WOS:000373568100040 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016 ER -