Search for resonances decaying to an anomalous jet and a Higgs boson in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V}$$
- Yerevan Physics Institute
- Yerevan Physics Institute; Yerevan State University
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik; TU Wien
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles
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- Université Catholique de Louvain
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas
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- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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- Fayoum University
- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics
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- Institut Polytechnique de Paris
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- Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I)
- Georgian Technical University; Ilia State University
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- Georgian Technical University; an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron; Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW)
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- University of Hamburg
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research
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- University of Ioánnina
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics; HUN-REN ATOMKI-Institute of Nuclear Research; Universitatea Babes-Bolyai-Facultatea de Fizica
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- Eötvös Loránd University
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- Eötvös Loránd University; Assiut University
- University of Debrecen
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- PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences; Universität Zürich
- PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences
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- ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA); Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne
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- Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine
- Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Authors Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN
- Authors Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; Another Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN
- Authors Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; Yerevan Physics Institute
- Authors Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; Yerevan Physics Institute; Imperial College
- Authors Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
- Authors Affiliated with an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN
- Authors Affiliated with an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; California Institute of Technology
- Authors Affiliated with an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN; an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN
This paper presents a search for new physics through the process where a massive particle, X, decays into a Higgs boson and a second particle, Y. The Higgs boson subsequently decays into a bottom quark–antiquark pair, which is reconstructed as a single large-radius jet. The decay products of Yare also assumed to produce a single large-radius jet. The identification of the Yparticle is enhanced by computing the anomaly score of its candidate jet using an autoencoder, which measures deviations from typical quark- or gluon-induced jets. This allows a simultaneous search for multiple Ydecay scenarios within a single analysis. In the main benchmark process, Yis a scalar particle that decays into a Wboson pair. Two other scalar Ydecay processes are also considered as benchmarks: decays to a light quark–antiquark pair, and decays to a top quark–antiquark pair. A fourth benchmark process considers Yas a hadronically decaying top quark, arising from the decay of a vector-like quark into a top quark and a Higgs boson. Data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1, are analyzed. The search covers Xmasses between 1.4 and 3.0 TeV and Ymasses between 90 and 400 TeV, with all simulated signals produced in the narrow-width approximation. No significant excess above the standard model background expectation is observed. The most stringent upper limits to date are placed on benchmark signal cross sections for various masses of X and Y particles
- Research Organization:
- Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89243024CSC000002; SC0010010
- OSTI ID:
- 3006795
- Report Number(s):
- CERN-EP--2025-190; CERN-EP-2025-190; CMS-B2G--24-015; CMS-B2G-24-015; FERMILAB-PUB--25-0695-CMS
- Journal Information:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online), Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 86; ISSN 1434-6052
- Publisher:
- Springer NatureCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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