Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions

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For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the W boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.3 fb-1, have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of 1.01×10-6 is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the W boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction.

Original language	English
Article number	151802
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	122
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2019

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CMS Collaboration (2019). Search for W Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions. Physical Review Letters, 122(15), [151802]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151802

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