[PDF] Top 20 Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at root s=13TeV

... 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 their ... See full document

... MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZ Š, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF, and Cantons ... See full document

... used in the photon identification are calculated by summing the p T of PF photons, neutral hadrons, or charged hadrons associated with the PV in a cone of radius ∆R = √ (∆η) 2 + (∆φ) 2 ... See full document

... fraction to such an invisible particle and a photon, B(H → invisible + γ), can be as large as 5%, and be consistent with all model parameters and current LHC constraints [ 15 ...shown in figure 1 ... See full document

... additional Higgs field doublet, resulting in five physical Higgs bosons [22] : a light scalar h associated with the observed Higgs boson, a heavy scalar H , a pseudoscalar A, and ... See full document

... A search for evidence for particle dark matter and unparticle production at the LHC has been performed in events containing two charged leptons, consistent with the decay ... See full document

... Distributions of the MVA outputs of the data and the SM expectation after the background-only fit to the data for the single-muon 5j/ ≥3b category (top left), for the single- electron 5j/ ≥3b ... See full document

... combination of searches for invisible decays of the Higgs boson, using data col- lected at √ s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, are also ...considered in this combination target the ... See full document

... the Higgs field vacuum expectation value. As per the recommendations of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group [ 47 ], g q is taken to be flavor uni- versal and equal to ...strength ... 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

... A search for pair production of the B quark with vectorlike couplings to W, Z, and Higgs bosons has been performed, using data recorded by the CMS experiment from ... See full document

... feature of the CMS apparatus [ 10 ] is a superconducting solenoid, 13 m in length and 6 m in diameter, which provides an axial magnetic field of ...2π in azimuth and |η| < ... See full document

... experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 ...analysis of the µµ final state complements the CMS searches for a low-mass A boson ... 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

... successful in describing a wide range of fundamental ...one of its notable shortcomings is that it does not provide a natural explanation for the Higgs boson (H) [ 1 – 3 ] observed ... See full document

... analyses. In the all-hadronic analysis, Table 1 includes systematic uncertainties related to the efficiency of the online b-tag selection relative to that applied offline, and to a ... See full document

... A search for an excess of events with large missing transverse momentum (p miss T ) produced in association with a pair of heavy-flavor quarks has ... See full document

... φ boson is searched for as a single resonance with mass m φ as- suming a narrow width or a width equal to 10% of m φ .... In the first case the intrinsic width of the signal is ... See full document

... similar to those of the SM W boson, with the addition of the decay W  → tb, which becomes relevant for W  boson masses larger than 180 ... boson is heavy enough ... See full document

... (F-tests) to determine the optimum number of parameters for the background function, to avoid ...butions of triplet mass in the four search regions are shown in ...along ... See full document