TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Barranco Navarro, L.
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  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - King, M.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lacuesta, V. R.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Melini, D.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Pedraza Lopez, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
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  - Measurement of exclusive gamma gamma -> W+W- production and search for exclusive Higgs boson production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 032011
EP  - 32pp
VL  - 94
IS  - 3
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - Searches for exclusively produced W boson pairs in the process pp(gamma gamma) -> pW(+) W- p and an exclusively produced Higgs boson in the process pp(gg) -> pHp have been performed using e(+/-) mu(-/+) final states. These measurements use 20.2 fb(-1) of pp collisions collected by the ATLAS experiment at a center-of-mass energy root s = 8 TeV at the LHC. Exclusive production of W+ W- consistent with the Standard Model prediction is found with 3.0 sigma significance. The exclusive W+ W- production cross section is determined to be sigma(gamma gamma -> W+ W- -> e(+/-) mu(-/+) X) = 6.9 +/- 2.2(stat) +/- 1.4(sys) fb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction. Limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set at 95% confidence level as -1.7 x 10(-6) < a(0)(W) / Lambda(2) < 1.7 x 10(-6) GeV-2 and -6.4 x 10(-6) < a(C)(W) / Lambda(2) < 6.3 x 10(-6) GeV-2. A 95% confidence-level upper limit on the total production cross section for an exclusive Higgs boson is set to 1.2 pb.
SN  - 2470-0010
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03745
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.032011
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.032011
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000383046500001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2016
ER  -