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Title: | Search for narrow high-mass resonances in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i> = 8 TeV decaying to a Z and a Higgs boson |
Other Titles: | Search for narrow high-mass resonances in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV decaying to a Z and a Higgs boson |
Authors: | Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Erö, J Friedl, M Frühwirth, R Frühwirth, R Ghete, VM Daci, N Khan, A Heracleous, N Keaveney, J Maes, M Lowette, S Strom, D Olbrechts, A Python, Q Tavernier, S Clerbaux, B Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Hobson, PR Van Onsem, GP Zahid, S Villella, I Caillol, C Dobur, D De Lentdecker, G Gay, APR Favart, L Cole, JE Grebenyuk, A Léonard, A Randle-conde, A Mohammadi, A Perniè, L Perniè, L Seva, T Reis, T Vander Velde, C Thomas, L Teodorescu, L Vanlaer, P Wang, J Zenoni, F Adler, V Beernaert, K Reid, ID Benucci, L Cimmino, A Crucy, S Leggat, D Costantini, S Garcia, G Fagot, A Ocampo Rios, AA Leslie, D Mccartin, J Poyraz, D Kyberd, P Ryckbosch, D Sigamani, M Salva Diblen, S Khan, A Cole, JE Hobson, PR Hörmann, N Hartl, C Jeitler, M Hrubec, J Jeitler, M Kiesenhofer, W Knünz, V Krammer, M Liko, D Krammer, M Krätschmer, I Rabady, D Mikulec, I Rahbaran, B Rabady, D Schöfbeck, R Rohringer, H Reid, ID Strauss, J Treberer-Treberspurg, W Waltenberger, W Mossolov, V Wulz, CE Wulz, CE Suarez Gonzalez, J Shumeiko, N Bansal, S Alderweireldt, S Cornelis, T Leslie, D De Wolf, EA Janssen, X Knutsson, A Lauwers, J Rougny, R Luyckx, S Ochesanu, S Van Haevermaet, H Van De Klundert, M Van Remortel, N Van Mechelen, P Kyberd, P Van Spilbeeck, A Blekman, F Blyweert, S D'Hondt, J Symonds, P |
Keywords: | CMS;physics;resonance production;jets;tau leptons;boosted topology |
Issue Date: | 9-Jul-2015 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A. et al. for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration (2015) 'Search for narrow high-mass resonances in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i> = 8 TeV decaying to a Z and a Higgs boson', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 748: pp. 255 - 277. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.011. |
Abstract: | A search for a narrow, high-mass resonance decaying into Z and Higgs (H) bosons is presented. The final state studied consists of a merged jet pair and a τ pair resulting from the decays of Z and H bosons, respectively. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected with the CMS experiment in 2012, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb<sup>-1</sup>. In the resonance mass range of interest, which extends from 0.8 to 2.5 TeV, the Z and H bosons are produced with large momenta, which implies that the final products of the two quarks or the two τ leptons must be detected within a small angular interval. From a combination of all possible decay modes of the τ leptons, production cross sections in a range between 0.9 and 27.8 fb are excluded at 95% confidence level, depending on the resonance mass. |
Description: | A preprint version is available at arXiv:1502.04994v2 [hep-ex], https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04994v2. Comments: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI. Report number: CMS-EXO-13-007, CERN-PH-EP-2015-01. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11237 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.011 |
ISSN: | 0370-2693 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: A. Tumasyan https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0684-6742 ORCiD: Joanne E. Cole https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5638-7599 ORCiD: Peter Hobson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-5253 ORCiD: Akram Khan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4597-4402 ORCiD: Paul Kyberd https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7353-7090 ORCiD: Ivan D. Reid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-779X ORCiD: Liliana Teodorescu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6974-6201 CMS-EXO-13-007 CERN-PH-EP-2015-01 arXiv:1502.04994v2 [hep-ex] |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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