Search for Z gamma resonances using leptonic and hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
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Journal Article
Abstract
A search is presented for resonances decaying to a Z boson and a photon. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1, and collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016. Two decay modes of the Z boson are investigated. In the leptonic channels, the Z boson candidates are reconstructed using electron or muon pairs. In the hadronic channels, they are identified using a large-radius jet, containing either light-quark or b quark decay products of the Z boson, via jet substructure and advanced b quark tagging techniques. The results from these channels are combined and interpreted in terms of upper limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fraction to Zγ for narrow and broad spin-0 resonances with masses between 0.35 and 4.0 TeV, providing thereby the most stringent limits on such resonances.
Date Issued
2018-09-26
Date Acceptance
2018-09-10
Citation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2018, 2018 (9)
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer
Journal / Book Title
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume
2018
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2018 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Beyond Standard Model
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Particle and resonance production
ATLAS DETECTOR
PP COLLISIONS
HIGGS-BOSON
P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS
PARTICLE
LHC
PHOTON
DECAYS
MASS
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
148
Date Publish Online
2018-09-26