Search for Heavy Resonances that Decay into a Vector Boson and a Higgs Boson in Hadronic Final States at √s=13TeV
European Physical Journal C 2017
CERN international group of authors, Viesturs Veckalns

A search for heavy resonances with masses above 1TeV, 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 13TeV, 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 3.3TeV 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.


Keywords
B2G, CMS, Diboson, Hadronic, Higgs, Physics, VH
DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-017-5192-z

international group of authors, C., Veckalns, V. Search for Heavy Resonances that Decay into a Vector Boson and a Higgs Boson in Hadronic Final States at √s=13TeV. European Physical Journal C, 2017, Vol.77, pp.1-10. ISSN 1434-6044. e-ISSN 1434-6052. Available from: doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z

Publication language
English (en)
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