Search for boosted Higgs decay to semi-leptonic WW in association with a hadronically decaying V boson

ORAL

Abstract

This talk will present the first search for associated production of a Higgs boson decaying to WW along with a V boson, i.e., a W or Z boson decaying hadronically. The search is performed using data collected with the CMS detector corresponding to 139 fb-1 of LHC proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV. We target semileptonic decays of the Higgs boson, where the hadronic and leptonic W decays are merged inside a wide-radius AK8 jet. Events are selected using machine-learning taggers to identify the Higgs boson jet and the V boson jet. A fiducial cross-section measurement will be presented.

Presenters

  • Jieun Yoo

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

Authors

  • Jieun Yoo

    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Corrinne Mills

    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Mohammad Abrar Wadud

    • University of Ilinois Chicago
  • Cristina M Suarez

    • University of Virginia
  • Farouk Mokhtar

    • University of California, San Diego
  • Susan Dittmer

    • Northwestern University
  • Javier M Duarte

    • University of California, San Diego
  • Antonios Agapitos

    • Peking University
  • Yuzhe Zhao

    • Peking University
  • Qiang Li

    • Peking University
  • Andrzej Novak

    • MIT
  • Jennet Dickinson

    • Cornell University