Search for a heavy vector resonance decaying to a Z boson and a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s√=13TeV

(CMS Collaboration) Sirunyan, Albert M; Tumasyan, A.; Antunović, Željko; Brigljević, Vuko; Ferenček, Dinko; Giljanović, Duje; Godinović, Nikola; Kovač, Marko; Lelas, Damir; Majumder, Devdatta; Puljak, Ivica; Roguljić, Matej; Starodumov, Andrey; Đurić, Senka; Šuša, Tatjana; Šćulac, Toni; Vetens, Wren (2021) Search for a heavy vector resonance decaying to a Z boson and a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s√=13TeV. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 81 (8). ISSN 1434-6044

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Download PDF Regular Article - Experimental Physics Open Access Published: 03 August 2021 Search for a heavy vector resonance decaying to a Z boson and a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s√=13TeV A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, …CMS Collaboration The European Physical Journal C volume 81, Article number: 688 (2021) Cite this article 1242 Accesses 4 Altmetric Metrics details A preprint version of the article is available at arXiv. Abstract A search is presented for a heavy vector resonance decaying into a Z boson and the standard model Higgs boson, where the Z boson is identified through its leptonic decays to electrons, muons, or neutrinos, and the Higgs boson is identified through its hadronic decays. The search is performed in a Lorentz-boosted regime and is based on data collected from 2016 to 2018 at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb−1. Upper limits are derived on the production of a narrow heavy resonance Z′, and a mass below 3.5 and 3.7TeV is excluded at 95% confidence level in models where the heavy vector boson couples predominantly to fermions and to bosons, respectively. These are the most stringent limits placed on the Heavy Vector Triplet Z′ model to date. If the heavy vector boson couples exclusively to standard model bosons, upper limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction are set between 23 and 0.3fb for a Z′ mass between 0.8 and 4.6TeV, respectively. This is the first limit set on a heavy vector boson coupling exclusively to standard model bosons in its production and decay.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Radiation-hard detectors ; Si microstrip and pad detectors ; Radiation damage to detector materials (solid state) ; Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors) ; radiation: damage ; CMS: upgrade ; tracking detector ; semiconductor detector: design ; semiconductor detector: microstrip ; performance ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Top physics ; p p: scattering ; p p: colliding beams ; top: single production
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Vuko Brigljević
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2022 07:51
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/7237
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09348-6

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