Search for heavy resonances decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in final states with charged leptons, neutrinos and b quarks at root s=13 TeV

Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Ambrogi, F. and Asilar, E. and Bartók, Márton and Csanád, Máté and Filipovic, Nicolas and Major, Péter and Nagy, Márton and Pásztor, Gabriella and Surányi, Olivér and Veres, Gábor and Bencze, György and Hajdú, Csaba and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Béni, Noémi Tekla and Czellár, Sándor and Karancsi, János and Makovec, Alajos and Molnár, József and Szillási, Zoltán and Raics, Péter and Ujvári, Balázs (2018) Search for heavy resonances decaying into a vector boson and a Higgs boson in final states with charged leptons, neutrinos and b quarks at root s=13 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (11). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

A search for heavy resonances, decaying into the standard model vector bosons and the standard model Higgs boson, is presented. The final states considered contain a b quark-antiquark pair from the decay of the Higgs boson, along with electrons and muons and missing transverse momentum, due to undetected neutrinos, from the decay of the vector bosons. The mass spectra are used to search for a localized excess consistent with a resonant particle. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data are found to be consistent with background expectations. Exclusion limits are set in the context of spin-0 two Higgs doublet models, some of which include the presence of dark matter. In the spin-1 heavy vector triplet framework, mass-degenerate W' and Z' resonances with dominant couplings to the standard model gauge bosons are excluded below a mass of 2.9 TeV at 95% confidence level.

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