[PDF] Top 20 Search for light bosons in decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV

... CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, M. Bachtis, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, A. Bonato, C. Botta, T. Camporesi, R. Castello, ... See full document

... Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence ... See full document

... pairs of oppositely charged ...0.5%. The J / ψ candidate’s pT has to be greater than 3.5 GeV, matching the trigger requirement, and the invariant masses of the higher and ... See full document

... A search for the Higgs boson decaying to two oppositely charged muons is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016 at a ... See full document

... requiring the Higgs boson rapidity to be less than 2.5. Outside of this volume the analysis has a negligible ...acceptance. The ratios are measured for the ggH, VBF, ttH, ... See full document

... extensions of the standard model (SM) predict new massive charged gauge bosons ...[1–3]. The W 0 boson, for example, is a heavy partner of the SM W gauge boson that ... See full document

... a boson with a mass about 125 GeV was discovered at the CERN LHC [ 1 – 3 ] with its properties subsequently shown [ 4 – 7 ] to be consistent with those of the standard ... See full document

... All the remaining processes are estimated from MC simulation, corrected for data/MC scale factors and pileup distribution, using NLO cross sections where ...available. The “tight-to-loose” method is used ... See full document

... incorporates the observed Higgs boson with a fixed mass of 125 GeV, interpreting it as the ...h. The uncertainties in the mass measurement are then ... See full document

... increase in signal ef- ficiency. At least one of the two muon candidates has to match (in η and azimuthal angle φ in radians) the muon that triggered the ...event. ... See full document

... description of the CMS detector, together with a def- inition of the coordinate system used and the relevant kinematic variables, can be found in ...]. The central feature ... See full document

... a boson with a mass about 125 GeV was discovered at the CERN LHC [1–3] with its properties subsequently shown [4–7] to be consistent with those of the standard model (SM) ... See full document

... feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing a magnetic field of ...Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, a ... See full document

... In the 2`2j channels, the search is optimized for high-mass excited leptons that produce a boosted, hadronically decaying Z ...Z decays to two quarks, their separation is often so small ... See full document

... deviations in the observed number of events from the expected background, we set upper limits on the production cross section of a new resonance in the ZH final ... See full document

... A search has been performed for vector-like quarks coupled to light quarks, produced in either single-production or pair-production processes, in proton-proton collisions ... See full document

... distributions of the final-state particles are sim- ilar for all five ...channels. The final state consists of two leading leptons with high p T and two subleading leptons with relatively low p ... See full document

... rations. Of particular interest among these are those with three or more charged leptons or with two leptons of the same electric charge, as they appear with comparatively low ...events in pp ... See full document

... feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diame- ter, providing a magnetic field of ...Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, ... See full document

... For the dominant Higgs boson decay mode into a pair of b quarks, recently established by ATLAS and CMS [39,40] , the decay products will be reconstructed as a single large- radius jet ... See full document