Search for heavy resonances that decay into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in hadronic final states at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ s = 13 $$\,\text {TeV}$$ TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Date Issued
September 2017
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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Springer-Verlag
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for Heavy Resonances That Decay into a Vector Boson and a Higgs Boson in Hadronic Final States at √s = 13 TeV.” The European Physical Journal C 77, 9 (September 2017): 636 © 2017 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.
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Abstract
A search for heavy resonances with masses above 1 TeV, decaying to final states containing a vector boson and a Higgs boson, is presented. The search considers hadronic decays of the vector boson, and Higgs boson decays to b quarks. The decay products are highly boosted, and each collimated pair of quarks is reconstructed as a single, massive jet. The analysis is performed using a data sample collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb⁻¹. The data are consistent with the background expectation and are used to place limits on the parameters of a theoretical model with a heavy vector triplet. In the benchmark scenario with mass-degenerate W′ and Z′ bosons decaying predominantly to pairs of standard model bosons, for the first time heavy resonances for masses as high as 3.3 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, setting the most stringent constraints to date on such states decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson.
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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/10.1140/EPJC/S10052-017-5192-Z
