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Search for heavy resonances that decay into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in hadronic final states at s√=13 TeV

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A search for heavy resonances with masses above 1TeV, decaying to final states containing 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 decay products are highly boosted, and each collimated pair of quarks is 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 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9fb−1. The data are consistent with the background expectation and are used to place limits on the parameters of a theoretical model with a heavy vector triplet. In the benchmark scenario with mass-degenerate W′ and Z′ bosons decaying predominantly to pairs of standard model bosons, for the first time heavy resonances for masses as high as 3.3TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, setting the most stringent constraints to date on such states decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson.
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2017-09
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Springer Verlag
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CMS, Physics, B2G, Diboson, VH, Higgs, Hadronic
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Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W. et al. Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 636. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5192-z
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