Search for a Higgs boson in the mass range from 145 to 1000 GeV decaying to a pair of W or Z bosons
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CMS Collaboration
Apyan, Aram
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bierwagen, Katharina
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Date Issued
October 2015
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
Khachatryan, V. et al. “Search for a Higgs Boson in the Mass Range from 145 to 1000 GeV Decaying to a Pair of W or Z Bosons.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2015, 10 (October 2015): 144 © 2015 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search for a heavy Higgs boson in the H → WW and H → ZZ decay channels is reported. The search is based upon proton-proton collision data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 5.1 fb⁻¹ at √ s = 7 TeV and up to 19.7fb−1at √ s = 8 TeV, recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Several final states of the H → WW and H → ZZ decays are analyzed. The combined upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the product of the cross section and branching fraction exclude a Higgs boson with standard model-like couplings and decays in the range 145 < mH< 1000 GeV. We also interpret the results in the context of an electroweak singlet extension of the standard model.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)144
