Baringer, Philip S.Bean, AliceMurray, Michael J.Sanders, Stephen J.CMS Collaboration2016-11-212016-11-212015Hewamanage, S., Linn, S., Markowitz, P. E., Martinez, G., Rodriguez, J. L., & CMS Collaboration. (2015). Search for narrow high-mass resonances in proton–proton collisions at√ s= 8TeVdecaying to a Z and a Higgs boson.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/22047A 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−1. 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.© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/CMSPhysicsResonance productionJetsTau leptonsBoosted topologyArticle10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.011openAccess