Search for a heavy resonance decaying into ZH in events with an energetic jet and two electrons, two muons, or missing transverse momentum

CMS Physics Analysis Summaries
Report number	CMS-PAS-B2G-23-008
Title	Search for a heavy resonance decaying into ZH in events with an energetic jet and two electrons, two muons, or missing transverse momentum
Corporate author(s)	CMS Collaboration
Collaboration	CMS Collaboration
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; CMS
Abstract	A search is presented for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a Higgs (H) boson. The analysis uses data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $13~\mathrm{TeV}$ corresponding to $138~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, recorded with the CMS experiment in the years 2016 to 2018. Resonance masses between 1.4 and $5~\mathrm{TeV}$ are considered, resulting in large transverse momenta of the Z and H bosons. The search targets the Z boson decay into two electrons, two muons, or two neutrinos. The H boson is reconstructed with a single large-radius jet, recoiling against the Z boson. The search is designed for the hadronic H boson decay modes $\mathrm{H} \to \mathrm{c}\bar{\mathrm{c}}$ and $\mathrm{H} \to \mathrm{V}\mathrm{V}^{*} \to \text{4 quarks}$, where V denotes a W or Z boson. It achieves complementary sensitivity to previous searches targeting the $\mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{b}\bar{\mathrm{b}}$ decays for high resonance masses.
Other source	Inspire
Related	superseded by: CERN-EP-2024-214
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