• DOI:10.1007/JHEP01(2019)051
• Corpus ID: 119236207

Search for heavy resonances decaying into two Higgs bosons or into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

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  title={Search for heavy resonances decaying into two Higgs bosons or into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV},
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Mankel and Isabell-Alissandra Melzer-Pellmann and Andreas Bernhard Meyer and Mareike Meyer and Marino Missiroli and Gregor Mittag and Joachim Mnich and A. Mussgiller and Daniel Pitzl and A. Raspereza and Mykola Savitskyi and Pooja Saxena and R. Shevchenko and Nazar Stefaniuk and H. Tholen and G. P. Van Onsem and Roberval Walsh and Yiwen Wen and Katarzyna Wichmann and Christoph Wissing and O. Zenaiev and Robin Aggleton and Samuel Bein and Volker Blobel and M. Centis Vignali and T. Dreyer and Erika Garutti and D. Rodriguez Gonzalez and Johannes Haller and Andreas Hinzmann and Malte Hoffmann and Anastasia Karavdina and Gregor Kasieczka and Robert Klanner and Roman Kogler and Nataliia Kovalchuk and S. Kurz and Daniele Marconi and Jens Multhaup and Marek Niedziela and Dominik Nowatschin and Thomas Peiffer and Adrian Perieanu and A. Reimers and Christian Scharf and Peter Schleper and A. Schmidt and Steffen Schumann and Joern Schwandt and Jory Sonneveld},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2018},
  volume={2019},
  pages={1-42}
}

• A. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, +497 authors J. Sonneveld
• Published 3 August 2018
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics

A bstractA search is presented for massive narrow resonances decaying either into two Higgs bosons, or into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson. The decay channels considered are HH→bb¯τ+τ−$$ \mathrm{H}\mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}{\tau}^{+}{\tau}^{-} $$ and VH→qq¯τ+τ−$$ \mathrm{V}\mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{q}\overline{\mathrm{q}}{\tau}^{+}{\tau}^{-} $$, where H denotes the Higgs boson, and V denotes the W or Z boson. This analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS Collaboration, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. For the TeV-scale mass resonances considered, substructure techniques provide ways to differentiate among the hadronization products from vector boson decays to quarks, Higgs boson decays to bottom quarks, and quark- or gluon-induced jets. Reconstruction techniques are used that have been specifically optimized to select events in which the tau lepton pair is highly boosted. The observed data are consistent with standard model expectations and upper limits are set at 95% confidence level on the product of cross section and branching fraction for resonance masses between 0.9 and 4.0 TeV. Exclusion limits are set in the context of bulk radion and graviton models:spin-0 radion resonances are excluded below a mass of 2.7 TeV at 95% confidence level. In the spin-1 heavy vector triplet framework, mass-degenerate W′ and Z′ resonances with dominant couplings to the standard model gauge bosons are excluded below a mass of 2.8 TeV at 95% confidence level. These are the first limits for massive resonances at the TeV scale with these decay channels at s=13$$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV.