[PDF] Top 20 Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

... A search for a narrow massive resonance decaying to two standard model Higgs bosons is performed using the LHC proton– proton collision data collected ... See full document

... this search comes from natural SUSY, but the analysis aims more broadly for new phenomena in ...about the helicity, the intermediate decay topology, or the presence of ... See full document

... orders of magnitude smaller than that for t ¯ t, and t ¯ tt ¯ t production has not yet been ...test of higher-order per- turbative QCD calculations. In addition, many models of physics beyond ... See full document

... from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Re- search Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract ...Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander ... See full document

... narrow resonance in the data, as seen from Fig. 1. The most signifi- cant excess in the data relative to the background fit occurs for a dijet mass of ...3.9 ... See full document

... variety of R-parity conserving supersymmetric models, including ones for which the top squark and neutralino masses are nearly ...developed to exploit the unique characteristics of ... See full document

... extensions of the standard model (SM), including models with extra dimensions or with new gauge sym- metries, amongst others, predict the existence of leptopho- bic vector or axial-vector ... See full document

... like to thank Stefan Liebler and Oscar St˚al for their help with the inter- pretation of the results in the 2HDM ...colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments ... See full document

... this search for the case where both Higgs bosons decay into bottom quark- antiquark pairs (bb) ...[8]. The main challenge of this search is to distinguish ... See full document

... Studies of the recently discovered spin-0 particle h [1–3], with a mass of 125 GeV and with properties consistent with the standard model (SM) Higgs boson [4], severely constrain SM ... See full document

... A search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a pair of b quarks, and produced in association with at least one additional b quark, is ... See full document

... A search for heavy resonances that decay to tau lepton pairs is performed using proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 ...TeV. The data were collected ... See full document

... corresponding to a factor of about 59 (94) times the cross section predicted by the ...For the production of resonances decaying to a pair of SM-like ... See full document

... using the MADGRAPH 5.1.5.12 [28] event generator with the CTEQ6L1 parton distribution functions [29], and their decays are simulated using the PYTHIA ...up to two additional ... See full document

... from the PF candidates using the anti-kT clustering algorithm [ 52 ] with distance parameters of ...jets”). The jet energy scale (JES) is cal- ibrated through correction factors dependent on ... See full document

... A search for a massive resonance decaying into a standard-model-like Higgs boson (H) and a W or Z boson is ...reported. The analysis is performed on a data sample cor- responding ... See full document

... . The transverse components of the neutrino momentum are set to the  p T miss and the longitudinal component pν z is calculated by constraining the invariant mass ... See full document

... discovered at the CERN LHC [1–3] with its properties subsequently shown [4–7] to be consistent with those of the standard model (SM) [8– 10] Higgs boson ...Although the ... See full document

... one of three ways: to tW, bZ, or bH. The search is carried out in final states with one, two, and more than two charged leptons, as well as in fully hadronic final ... See full document

... a search for a leptophobic Z 0 resonance that decays into four leptons via cascade decays as described in ...[22]. In this model, the Z 0 is coupled to quark pairs ... See full document