Abstract
A search for heavy resonances decaying into a Higgs boson (H) and a new particle (X) is reported, utilizing 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at s=13TeV collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The particle Xis assumed to decay to a pair of light quarks, and the fully hadronic final state XH→qq¯′bb¯is analysed. The search considers the regime of high XH resonance masses, where the Xand H bosons are both highly Lorentz-boosted and are each reconstructed using a single jet with large radius parameter. A two-dimensional phase space of XH mass versus X mass is scanned for evidence of a signal, over a range of XH resonance mass values between 1 TeV and 4 TeV, and for X particles with masses from 50 GeV to 1000 GeV. All search results are consistent with the expectations for the background due to Standard Model processes, and 95% CL upper limits are set, as a function of XH and X masses, on the production cross-section of the XH→qq¯′bb¯ resonance.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 24-45 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 779 |
Early online date | 3 Feb 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Apr 2018 |
Bibliographical note
36 pages in total, author list starting page 20, 7 figures, 0 tables, published in PLB, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2017-04/Keywords
- hep-ex