Search for long-lived particles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3A10443112" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:10443112 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=lUR-o4lBJi" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=lUR-o4lBJi</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)160" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP03(2022)160</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Search for long-lived particles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
Original language description
A search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced in association with a Z boson is presented. The study is performed using data from proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment during 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 117fb(-1).( )The LLPs are assumed to decay to a pair of standard model quarks that are identified as displaced jets within the CMS tracker system. Triggers and selections based on Z boson decays to electron or muon pairs improve the sensitivity to light LLPs (down to 15 GeV). This search provides sensitivity to beyond the standard model scenarios which predict LLPs produced in association with a Z boson. In particular, the results are interpreted in the context of exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of scalar LLPs (H -> SS). The Higgs boson decay branching fraction is constrained to values less than 6% for proper decay lengths of 10-100 mm and for LLP masses between 40 and 55 GeV. In the case of low-mass (approximate to 15 GeV) scalar particles that subsequently decay to a pair of b quarks, the search is sensitive to branching fractions B(H -> SS) < 20% for proper decay lengths of 10-50 mm. The use of associated production with a Z boson increases the sensitivity to low-mass LLPs of this analysis with respect to gluon fusion searches. In the case of 15 GeV scalar LLPs, the improvement corresponds to a factor of 2 at a proper decay length of 30 mm.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10300 - Physical sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTT18021" target="_blank" >LTT18021: Cooperation of the Czech Republic with JINR Dubna in the theoretical and nuclear physics and application of nuclear methods in other fields</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics [online]
ISSN
1029-8479
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
37
Pages from-to
160
UT code for WoS article
000773937600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85127233487