Search for resonances decaying into a weak vector boson and a Higgs boson in the fully hadronic final state produced in proton-proton collisions at √s̅ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Publication date 01-12-2020
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 112008
Volume | Issue number 102 | 11
Number of pages 27
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
A search for heavy resonances decaying into a W or Z boson and a Higgs boson produced in proton - proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at √s̅ = 13 TeV is presented. The analysis utilizes the dominant W -> qq-' or Z -> qq- and H -> bb- decays with substructure techniques applied to large-radius jets. A sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb-1 collected with the ATLAS detector is analyzed and no significant excess of data is observed over the background prediction. The results are interpreted in the context of the heavy vector triplet model with spin-1 W' and Z' bosons. Upper limits on the cross section are set for resonances with mass between 1.5 and 5.0 TeV, ranging from 6.8 to 0.53 fb for W' -> W H and from 8.7 to 0.53 fb for Z' -> ZH at the 95% confidence level.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.112008
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