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

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number636
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume77
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • B2G
  • CMS
  • Diboson
  • Hadronic
  • Higgs
  • Physics
  • VH

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