A search is conducted for standard model Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum (p(T)) decaying to bottom quark pairs and produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at the LHC. The result is based on a dataset of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeVcollected with the CMS detector in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Boosted Higgs, W, and Z boson decays are reconstructed using large-radius jets with p(T) > 450 GeV and identified with heavy-flavor classifiers based on a graph convolutional neural network. The observed signal strength relative to the standard model expectation is mu = 0.72(-0.71)(+0.75) including statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Hayrapetyan, A., Makarenko, V., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J.W., Benato, L., et al. (2026). Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 879 [10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140534].

Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Ciocci, M. A.;Turini, N.;
2026-01-01

Abstract

A search is conducted for standard model Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum (p(T)) decaying to bottom quark pairs and produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at the LHC. The result is based on a dataset of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeVcollected with the CMS detector in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Boosted Higgs, W, and Z boson decays are reconstructed using large-radius jets with p(T) > 450 GeV and identified with heavy-flavor classifiers based on a graph convolutional neural network. The observed signal strength relative to the standard model expectation is mu = 0.72(-0.71)(+0.75) including statistical and systematic uncertainties.
2026
Hayrapetyan, A., Makarenko, V., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J.W., Benato, L., et al. (2026). Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 879 [10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140534].
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