Search for high-mass Zγ resonances in proton–proton collisions at s=8 and 13 TeV using jet substructure techniques

The CMS collaboration; CERN, Switzerland

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.062

Search for high-mass Zγ resonances in proton–proton collisions at s=8 and 13 TeV using jet substructure techniques

The CMS collaboration, CERN, Switzerland

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Abstract

A search for massive resonances decaying to a Z boson and a photon is performed in events with a hadronically decaying Z boson candidate, separately in light-quark and b quark decay modes, identified using jet substructure and advanced b tagging techniques. Results are based on samples of proton–proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.7 and 2.7 fb⁻¹, respectively. The results of the search are combined with those of a similar search in the leptonic decay modes of the Z boson, based on the same data sets. Spin-0 resonances with various widths and with masses in a range between 0.2 and 3.0TeV are considered. No significant excess is observed either in the individual analyses or the combination. The results are presented in terms of upper limits on the production cross section of such resonances and constitute the most stringent limits to date for a wide range of masses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	363-387
Number of pages	25
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	772
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.062
Publication status	Published - 10 Sept 2017

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Funding

Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation ; the A. P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science , cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education , the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428 , Opus 2013/11/B/ST2/04202 , 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 and 2014/15/B/ST2/ 03998 , Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406 ; the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF ; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias ; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship , Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation , contract C-1845 .

Funders	Funder number
EU-ESF
National Science Foundation	1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1506130, 1211067, 1624356
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Welch Foundation	C-1845
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Qatar National Research Fund
Ministry of Education and Science
Science and Technology Facilities Council	GRIDPP
European Commission
European Research Council
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Chulalongkorn University
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture
A.G. Leventis Foundation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki	2012/07/E/ST2/01406, 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, 2013/11/B/ST2/04202, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/ 03998
European Regional Development Fund

Keywords

CMS
EXO
Physics
Resonances

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Search for high-mass Zγ resonances in proton–proton collisions at s=8 and 13 TeV using jet substructure techniques

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