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Title: | Inclusive search for highly boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV |
Authors: | Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Ambrogi, F Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Erö, J Escalante Del Valle, A Frühwirth, R Jeitler, M Krammer, N Lechner, L Liko, D Madlener, T Mikulec, I Pitters, FM Rad, N Schieck, J Schöfbeck, R Spanring, M Templ, S Waltenberger, W Wulz, CE Zarucki, M Chekhovsky, V Litomin, A Makarenko, V Suarez Gonzalez, J Darwish, MR De Wolf, EA Di Croce, D Janssen, X Kello, T Lelek, A Pieters, M Rejeb Sfar, H Van Haevermaet, H Van Mechelen, P Van Putte, S Van Remortel, N Blekman, F Bols, ES Chhibra, SS D’Hondt, J De Clercq, J Lontkovskyi, D Lowette, S Marchesini, I Moortgat, S Morton, A Python, Q Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Van Mulders, P Beghin, D Bilin, B Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Delannoy, H Dorney, B Favart, L Grebenyuk, A Kalsi, AK Makarenko, I Moureaux, L Pétré, L Popov, A Postiau, N Starling, E Thomas, L Vander Velde, C Vanlaer, P Vannerom, D Wezenbeek, L Cornelis, T Dobur, D Gruchala, M Khvastunov, I Niedziela, M Roskas, C Skovpen, K Tytgat, M Verbeke, W Vermassen, B Vit, M Bruno, G Bury, F Caputo, C David, P Delaere, C Delcourt, M Donertas, IS Giammanco, A Lemaitre, V Mondal, K Prisciandaro, J Taliercio, A Teklishyn, M Vischia, P Wuyckens, S |
Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments);Higgs physics |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Citation: | Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, 2020 (12) |
Abstract: | © 2020, The Author(s). A search for standard model Higgs bosons (H) produced with transverse momentum (pT) greater than 450 GeV and decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs (b b ¯) is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at s = 13 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. The search is inclusive in the Higgs boson production mode. Highly Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons decaying to b b ¯ are reconstructed as single large-radius jets, and are identified using jet substructure and a dedicated b tagging technique based on a deep neural network. The method is validated with Z →b b ¯ decays. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events above the background assuming no Higgs boson production is observed with a local significance of 2.5 standard deviations (σ), while the expectation is 0.7. The corresponding signal strength and local significance with respect to the standard model expectation are μH = 3.7 ± 1.2(stat)−0.7+0.8(syst)−0.5+0.8(theo) and 1.9 σ. Additionally, an unfolded differential cross section as a function of Higgs boson pT for the gluon fusion production mode is presented, assuming the other production modes occur at the expected rates. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/22114 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)085 |
ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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