Measurement of boosted Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion or gluon fusion in the H → bb¯ decay mode using LHC proton-proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV
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Hayrapetyan, A.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Andrejkovic, J. W.
Bergauer, T.
Chatterjee, S.
Damanakis, K.
Dragicevic, M.
Hussain, P. S.
Jeitler, M.
Date Issued
December 4, 2024
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
The CMS collaboration., Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A. et al. Measurement of boosted Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion or gluon fusion in the H → → bb¯ decay mode using LHC proton-proton collision data at
√s = 13 TeV.
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Abstract
A measurement is performed of Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum (pT) via vector boson or gluon fusion in proton-proton collisions. The result is based on a data set with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected in 2016–2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The decay of a high-pT Higgs boson to a boosted bottom quark-antiquark pair is selected using large-radius jets and employing jet substructure and heavy-flavor taggers based on machine learning techniques. Independent regions targeting the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms are defined based on the topology of two quark-initiated jets with large pseudorapidity separation. The signal strengths for both processes are extracted simultaneously by performing a maximum likelihood fit to data in the large-radius jet mass distribution. The observed signal strengths relative to the standard model expectation are 4.9 − 1.6 + 1.9 and 1.6 − 1.5 + 1.7 for the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms, respectively. A differential cross section measurement is also reported in the simplified template cross section framework.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)035
