[PDF] Top 20 Search for new resonances decaying via WZ to leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt s =$ 8 TeV

... 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 for their contributions ... See full document

... mechanisms; in all three cases, only decays to bottom quarks are ...as in the flavor-universal case decays to charm quark-antiquark pair would also contribute to the signal ...increase ... See full document

... respect to the standard model expectation is observed and limits are set on the product of the cross section for a new scalar boson and the branching fraction for its decay to ZZ for a large range of ... 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 center- of-mass energy √ ... See full document

... [20]. In both cases, Jimmy 4.31 [21] is used to de- scribe multiple parton interactions and Herwig ...used to simulate the remaining underlying event and parton showers and ...backgrounds. To ... See full document

... Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Sci- ence and Technology Development Agency of ... See full document

... D. Lontkovskyi, 5 S. Lowette, 5 I. Marchesini, 5 S. Moortgat, 5 L. Moreels, 5 Q. Python, 5 K. Skovpen, 5 S. Tavernier, 5 W. Van Doninck, 5 P. Van Mulders, 5 I. Van Parijs, 5 D. Beghin, 6 B. Bilin, 6 ... See full document

... MoER, ERC IUT, PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI ... See full document

... decays to a neutralino that decays into a quark- antiquark pair and a muon) are presented in ...6. In order to increase the number of tested models, the lifetime distributions of the signal ... See full document

... 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 contributions ... 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 for their contributions ... See full document

... two search regions are defined, referred to as the low- and high-mass ...regions. In the low-mass region (targeting m N < m W ), N is produced in the decay of an on-shell W boson, leading ... See full document

... included in this statistical combination are based on proton–proton (pp) collision data collected by the CMS ex- periment [29] at √ s = 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding ... See full document

... A search for new exotic particles decaying to the VZ final state is performed, where V is either a W or a Z boson decaying into two overlapping jets and the Z decays into a pair of ... See full document

... narrow resonances in the dijet invariant mass spectrum have been an important part of the physics program at every ...predict resonances with significant couplings to quarks ...ticles ... See full document

... contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing ... See full document

... Owing to the possible role of third-generation quarks in the solution of problems in electroweak symmetry breaking, the VLQs in many of the aforementioned models mix predominantly with third ... See full document

... respect to the counterclockwise beam ...corresponding to roughly 0.0174 × 0.0174 in η-φ ...measured in gas-ionization detectors embedded in the steel return yoke of the ...imbalance ... See full document

... successful in describing physical phenomena but it is widely con- sidered to be an incomplete theory because of various shortcom- ...ings. In particular, the SM suffers from the so-called hierarchy ... See full document

... 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 contributions ... See full document