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Search for a massive resonance decaying into a Higgs boson and a W or Z boson in hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at ?s=8 TeV

Abstract: A search for a massive resonance decaying into a standard-model-like Higgs boson (H) and a W or Z boson is reported. The analysis is performed on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb-1, collected in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. Signal events, in which the decay products of Higgs, W, or Z bosons at high Lorentz boost are contained within single reconstructed jets, are identified using jet substructure techniques, including the tagging of b hadrons. This is the first search for heavy resonances decaying into HW or HZ resulting in an all-jet final state, as well as the first application of jet substructure techniques to identify H? WW*? 4q decays at high Lorentz boost. No significant signal is observed and limits are set at 95% confidence level on the production cross sections of W? and Z? in a model with mass-degenerate charged and neutral spin-1 resonances. Resonance masses are excluded for W0 in the interval [1.0, 1.6]TeV, for Z0 in the intervals [1.0, 1.1] and [1.3, 1.5]TeV, and for mass-degenerate W0 and Z? in the interval [1.0, 1.7]TeV.

 Fuente: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Num. 2, Art. Num. 145

 Publisher: Springer Verlag

 Publication date: 01/02/2016

 No. of pages: 42

 Publication type: Article

 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2016)145

 ISSN: 1126-6708,1029-8479

 Publication Url: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)145

Authorship

KHACHATRYAN, VLADIMIR

JAVIER ANDRES BROCHERO CIFUENTES

JUAN RAMON CASTIÑEIRAS DE SAA

MARCOS FERNANDEZ GARCIA

ALBERTO GRAZIANO

MARIA AMPARO LOPEZ VIRTO

RAFAEL JOSE MARCO DE LUCAS

FRANCISCA JAVIELA MUÑOZ SANCHEZ

ANA YAIZA RODRIGUEZ MARRERO