Search for heavy resonances decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in hadronic final states with 2016 data

Collaboration
2017
17 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-B2G-17-002
Experiments:

Citations per year

2016201720180125
Abstract:
A search for heavy resonances with a mass above 1 TeV1~\mathrm{TeV}, decaying to 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 collimated pair of quarks are 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 13 TeV13~\mathrm{TeV}, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. The data is found to be consistent with the background expectation and used to place limits in the context of a theoretical model with a heavy vector triplet. In the benchmark scenario model B, a resonance with mass up to 3.4 TeV3.4~\mathrm{TeV} is excluded at 95%95\% confidence level, and stringent limits are set on the parameters of the model.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: colliding beams
  • resonance: hadroproduction
  • resonance: heavy
  • resonance: mass: lower limit
  • Higgs particle: associated production
  • vector boson: associated production
  • vector boson: hadronic decay
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • bottom: pair production