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Search for heavy resonances that decay into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in hadronic final states at s = 13 TeV.

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Sirunyan, AM; Tumasyan, A; Adam, W; Ambrogi, F; Asilar, E; Bergauer, T; Brandstetter, J; Brondolin, E; Dragicevic, M; Erö, J; Flechl, M; Li, Q ...
Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
January 2017

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 35.9 fb - 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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The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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1434-6052

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1434-6044

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

77

Issue

9

Start / End Page

636

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
 

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Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., … Butz, E. (2017). 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, Particles and Fields, 77(9), 636. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z
Sirunyan, A. M., A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, F. Ambrogi, E. Asilar, T. Bergauer, J. Brandstetter, 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, Particles and Fields 77, no. 9 (January 2017): 636. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z.
Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, Asilar E, Bergauer T, 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, Particles and fields. 2017 Jan;77(9):636.
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, Particles and Fields, vol. 77, no. 9, Jan. 2017, p. 636. Epmc, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z.
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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, Particles and fields. 2017 Jan;77(9):636.
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Published In

The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

DOI

EISSN

1434-6052

ISSN

1434-6044

Publication Date

January 2017

Volume

77

Issue

9

Start / End Page

636

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences