Measurement of boosted Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion or gluon fusion in the H → bb̅ decay mode using LHC proton-proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV

the CMS Collaboration, A Hayrapetyan, David B Anthony, Jim Brooke, Aaron Bundock, Florian J J Bury, Emyr J Clement, David G Cussans, H. Flächer, Maciej Glowacki, Joel Goldstein, Helen F Heath, Lukasz Kreczko, Sudarshan Paramesvaran, Liam Robertshaw, Sarah A Seif El Nasr, Vincent J Smith, Nicolas Stylianou, Katie L M R Walkingshaw Pass, et al.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticle (Academic Journal)peer-review

Abstract

A measurement is performed of Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum (pT) via vector boson or gluon fusion in proton-proton collisions. The result is based on a data set with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected in 2016–2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The decay of a high-pT Higgs boson to a boosted bottom quark-antiquark pair is selected using large-radius jets and employing jet substructure and heavy-flavor taggers based on machine learning techniques. Independent regions targeting the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms are defined based on the topology of two quark-initiated jets with large pseudorapidity separation. The signal strengths for both processes are extracted simultaneously by performing a maximum likelihood fit to data in the large-radius jet mass distribution. The observed signal strengths relative to the standard model expectation are 4.9+1.9−1.6  and 1.6+1.7−1.5  for the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms, respectively. A differential cross section measurement is also reported in the simplified template cross section framework.


Original languageEnglish
Article number35
Number of pages47
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2024
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2024

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Measurement of boosted Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion or gluon fusion in the H → bb̅ decay mode using LHC proton-proton collision data at √s = 13 TeV'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this