[PDF] Top 20 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 root s=8 TeV

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes ... See full document

... from Z boson decays and ...used, and the isolation is based on all charged-particle tracks within the isolation cone, excluding the candidate muon ...track. In the case of two spatially ... See full document

... yields in each analysis category for single-muon (top left), single- electron (top right), and dilepton (bottom) final ...observed in data (black markers) are ...quark and tt in ... See full document

... by Z → νν + jets events, which are simulated with Mad- Graph 5_amc@nlo version ...2.3.2.2 and with the NNPDF 3.0 PDF set. Parton fragmentation and hadronization are performed with pythia ...pp ... See full document

... gram and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract ...752730, and 765710 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the ...F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the ... See full document

... final states ZZ → 4`, 2`2q, and 2`2ν are combined in the analysis, where ` = e or ...fusion and electroweak production of the scalar resonance are considered with a free ... See full document

... m in diameter and 13 m in length, which provides an axial magnetic field of ...pixel and strip tracker is used to measure the trajectories of charged particles with pseudorapidity | η | < 2 ... See full document

... tion and simultaneously preserving good signal selection involves vetoing prompt leptons from W or Z boson decays, while accepting possible secondary leptons from b quark de- ...muon ... See full document

... H decaying into a b ¯b pair merged into a single jet [35] ...substructure and jet flavor tagging techniques [48] . The search sensitivity in the intermediate mass range, ...1.2 ... See full document

... CL s criterion [ 53 – 55 ]. Systematic uncertainties are taken into account as nuisance parameters, which are removed by marginalization, assuming a gamma or log-normal prior for normalization ... See full document

... from Z (νν) +jets and W (ν) +jets ...of Z or W bosons decaying leptonically (  = μ, ...state at the LHC were based on counting experiments, the analysis presented ... 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 ...CL s criterion [59, ... See full document

... Voigt or Breit-Wigner profiles obtained from the individ- ual ...5 and 8% depending on the final ...Voigt and Lorentz fit parameters as a function of the mass, then comparing the ... See full document

... A search for a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and a photon is ...using proton-proton collision datasets recorded by the CMS de- tector at ... See full document

... divided into two classes, reducible and irreducible, and are estimated respectively from data and MC ...electroweak boson with a top quark pair (t ¯tV, V ¼ W, Z), give ... See full document

... channels into SM particles: bW, tZ, and tH [ 9 – 13 ...0.25, and 0.25, respectively. The T doublet can decay to tZ or tH, each with a branching fraction of ...0.5. In this case the ... See full document

... correct and wrong quark jet assignments in analogy with the tHq jet assignment described ...b and W boson from the hadronically decaying top quark, or the difference ... See full document

... MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA ... See full document

... A search has been conducted for heavy resonances that decay to two bosons, one of which is a W, Z, or Higgs boson that decays to a pair of quarks, and the other is a ... See full document