Search for New Heavy Resonances Decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, or ZH Boson Pairs in the All-Jets Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Physics Letters B 2023
Kārlis Dreimanis, Antra Gaile, Andris Potrebko, Toms Torims, Viesturs Veckalns, CMS Collaboration

A search for new heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, or ZH boson pairs in the all-jets final state is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector in 2016-2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1−1. The search is sensitive to resonances with masses between 1.3 and 6 TeV, decaying to bosons that are highly Lorentz-boosted such that each of the bosons forms a single large-radius jet. Machine learning techniques are employed to identify such jets. No significant excess over the estimated standard model background is observed. A maximum local significance of 3.6 standard deviations, corresponding to a global significance of 2.3 standard deviations, is observed at masses of 2.1 and 2.9 TeV. In a heavy vector triplet model, spin-1 Z' and W' resonances with masses below 4.8 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level (CL). These limits are the most stringent to date. In a bulk graviton model, spin-2 gravitons and spin-0 radions with masses below 1.4 and 2.7 TeV, respectively, are excluded at 95% CL. Production of heavy resonances through vector boson fusion is constrained with upper cross section limits at 95% CL as low as 0.1 fb.


Keywords
CMS Diboson resonances Substructure
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137813
Hyperlink
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269323001478?via%3Dihub

The CMS Collaboration, A.Tumasyan, K.Dreimanis, A.Gaile, A.Potrebko, T.Torims, V.Veckalns ... [et al.]. Search for New Heavy Resonances Decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, or ZH Boson Pairs in the All-Jets Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2023, Vol. 844, Article number 137813. ISSN 0370-2693. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137813

Publication language
English (en)
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