[PDF] Top 20 Search for ZZ resonances in the 2l2v final state in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

... acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO ... See full document

... A search for new physics in energetic, high-multiplicity final states has been performed using proton– proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass ... See full document

... included in the denominator; the model is thus fixed to the background-only ...that the SM Higgs boson is added to the non Higgs boson background ...turns the likelihood ... See full document

... using the HERWIG v6.5 MC generator and their cross sections are obtained at NLO using the MCFM [25] pro- gram with the MSTW2008 ...PDFs. The MC samples sim- ulated with the ... See full document

... and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal ... See full document

... describes the vast majority of the observed particle physics ...by the SM, such as the hierarchy problem, the need for fine tuning to explain the large difference between ... See full document

... by the compositeness dynam- ics, which represent the strengths of the excited quark couplings to the SM partners and are usually assumed to be of order ...unity. In ... See full document

... from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract ...Union); the Leventis Foun- dation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von ... See full document

... to the primary vertex is required to be con- sistent with originating from that vertex: longitudinal distance ...of the three-dimensional ...where the lepton is produced by a semileptonic ... See full document

... Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation ` a la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); ... See full document

... to the LHC plane), and the z axis along the counterclockwise-beam ...direction. The polar angle θ is measured from the positive z axis and the azimuthal angle φ is measured ... See full document

... detector at the LHC has a cylindrical geometry with a near 4 π coverage in solid ...1 The inner detector (ID), con- sisting of silicon pixel, silicon microstrip and transition radiation ... See full document

... of the Z 0 resonance decaying into a quark-antiquark pair are generated at leading order (LO) with the MADG RAPH5 aMC@NLO ...jets in matrix element calculations. The dominant SM ... See full document

... from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, Contracts ...Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von ... See full document

... of the CMS detector is a superconducting solenoid providing an axial magnetic field of ...(HCAL). The inner tracker is composed of a silicon pixel detector and a silicon strip tracker, and measures ... See full document

... . The M AD G RAPH 5_a MC @ NLO 2.3.3 [26] generator is used for the diboson, W þ jets, Z þ jets, and QCD multijet samples, at LO accuracy with matching [29] between jets from the matrix ... See full document

... A search is reported for a narrow vector resonance decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at p ffiffiffi s ¼ 13 TeV, collected with the CMS ... See full document

... purposes in this analysis. Simula- tions of the signal processes are used to determine signal efficiencies; background process simulation is used for validation of the analysis performance and to ... See full document

... For the boosted search, jet grooming techniques are used to eliminate soft, and wide-angle QCD radiation at the periphery of the ...improves the jet mass resolution and reduces ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document