CMS logoCMS event Hgg
Compact Muon Solenoid
LHC, CERN

CMS-PAS-B2G-24-007
Search for heavy H$ \gamma $ and Z$ \gamma $ resonances with a b quark pair in the final state in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV
Abstract: A search for heavy resonances decaying into a H or Z boson and a photon, with the H and Z bosons decaying to a pair of bottom quarks ($\mathrm{b\bar{b}}$) is presented. The analysis is performed in proton-proton collision data at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$ ^{-1} $. The analyzed events include a photon and a massive, large-radius jet with a significant Lorentz boost containing the $\mathrm{b\bar{b}}$ system and is identified as a candidate for the H or Z boson. An advanced flavor tagging algorithm based on the transformer architecture is used to classify jets into 314 categories based on their substructures, and it is employed to efficiently identify and select H and Z boson candidate jets decaying into $\mathrm{b\bar{b}}$, suppressing background. A set of parametric functions is used to fit the photon-jet invariant mass spectrum and to extract potential signals. No significant excess above standard model expectations is observed. The results are interpreted as upper limits on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction for narrow spin-1 H$ \gamma $ resonances and for spin-0 Z$ \gamma $ resonances of various widths. These limits are the most stringent to date.
Figures & Tables Summary References CMS Publications
Figures

png pdf
Figure 1:
Schematic illustration indicating the topology of the signal processes under consideration in this search. The spin-1 $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ scenario is shown to the left, and the spin-0 $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ signal scenario is shown on the right.

png pdf
Figure 1-a:
Schematic illustration indicating the topology of the signal processes under consideration in this search. The spin-1 $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ scenario is shown to the left, and the spin-0 $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ signal scenario is shown on the right.

png pdf
Figure 1-b:
Schematic illustration indicating the topology of the signal processes under consideration in this search. The spin-1 $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ scenario is shown to the left, and the spin-0 $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\gamma $ signal scenario is shown on the right.

png pdf
Figure 2:
Shown on the left is a plot of background efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{B} $) vs.\ signal efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{S} $), commonly referred to as a ROC curve (as defined in the text), for the Xbb tagger, alongside those of various other tagging algorithms used in earlier related analyses. The taggers in the legend are listed in chronological order, from top to bottom, based on their first use in similar searches, which can be found in Refs. [10,68,69,70]. All ROCs are evaluated in the simulated $ m_{ \mathrm{Z}' } = $ 1 TeV signal sample and simulated background samples. The right plot presents the distributions of the Xbb tagger score in data and simulated signal samples. The lower panel illustrates a figure of merit for signal sensitivity, defined as the signal event yield (S) divided by the square root of the data event yield (D), $ S/\sqrt{D} $. Both plots are made using the preselection criteria. The Z' signals are normalized with the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 2-a:
Shown on the left is a plot of background efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{B} $) vs.\ signal efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{S} $), commonly referred to as a ROC curve (as defined in the text), for the Xbb tagger, alongside those of various other tagging algorithms used in earlier related analyses. The taggers in the legend are listed in chronological order, from top to bottom, based on their first use in similar searches, which can be found in Refs. [10,68,69,70]. All ROCs are evaluated in the simulated $ m_{ \mathrm{Z}' } = $ 1 TeV signal sample and simulated background samples. The right plot presents the distributions of the Xbb tagger score in data and simulated signal samples. The lower panel illustrates a figure of merit for signal sensitivity, defined as the signal event yield (S) divided by the square root of the data event yield (D), $ S/\sqrt{D} $. Both plots are made using the preselection criteria. The Z' signals are normalized with the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 2-b:
Shown on the left is a plot of background efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{B} $) vs.\ signal efficiency ($ \epsilon_\text{S} $), commonly referred to as a ROC curve (as defined in the text), for the Xbb tagger, alongside those of various other tagging algorithms used in earlier related analyses. The taggers in the legend are listed in chronological order, from top to bottom, based on their first use in similar searches, which can be found in Refs. [10,68,69,70]. All ROCs are evaluated in the simulated $ m_{ \mathrm{Z}' } = $ 1 TeV signal sample and simulated background samples. The right plot presents the distributions of the Xbb tagger score in data and simulated signal samples. The lower panel illustrates a figure of merit for signal sensitivity, defined as the signal event yield (S) divided by the square root of the data event yield (D), $ S/\sqrt{D} $. Both plots are made using the preselection criteria. The Z' signals are normalized with the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 3:
The left and right plots present the distributions of $ m_{\text{j}} $ and $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $, respectively, in data, MC background, and simulated signal samples, with preselection criteria applied. The Z' signals are normalized using the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 3-a:
The left and right plots present the distributions of $ m_{\text{j}} $ and $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $, respectively, in data, MC background, and simulated signal samples, with preselection criteria applied. The Z' signals are normalized using the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 3-b:
The left and right plots present the distributions of $ m_{\text{j}} $ and $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $, respectively, in data, MC background, and simulated signal samples, with preselection criteria applied. The Z' signals are normalized using the benchmark cross sections, while the S signals are normalized to 10 fb.

png pdf
Figure 4:
A schematic illustration of the definition of the SRs and CRs in the $ m_{\text{j}} $–Xbb plane is presented to the left. The right is a plot of the product of signal efficiency and acceptance vs.\ resonance mass for the simulated signal samples in the relevant SRs.

png pdf
Figure 4-a:
A schematic illustration of the definition of the SRs and CRs in the $ m_{\text{j}} $–Xbb plane is presented to the left. The right is a plot of the product of signal efficiency and acceptance vs.\ resonance mass for the simulated signal samples in the relevant SRs.

png pdf
Figure 4-b:
A schematic illustration of the definition of the SRs and CRs in the $ m_{\text{j}} $–Xbb plane is presented to the left. The right is a plot of the product of signal efficiency and acceptance vs.\ resonance mass for the simulated signal samples in the relevant SRs.

png pdf
Figure 5:
The $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ distributions of the data in CR1 (left) and CR2 (right) fitted with the six parametric functions. The lower panels show the pull distributions as defined in the text, with respect to the best fit function.

png pdf
Figure 5-a:
The $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ distributions of the data in CR1 (left) and CR2 (right) fitted with the six parametric functions. The lower panels show the pull distributions as defined in the text, with respect to the best fit function.

png pdf
Figure 5-b:
The $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ distributions of the data in CR1 (left) and CR2 (right) fitted with the six parametric functions. The lower panels show the pull distributions as defined in the text, with respect to the best fit function.

png pdf
Figure 6:
Postfit $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ spectra in the four SRs: SRH1 (upper left), SRZ1 (upper right), SRH2 (lower left), and SRZ2 (lower right). The lower panels show the pull distributions with respect to the best-fit function. The signals with the largest local significances are shown in each SR and are normalized to the observed cross section upper limits.

png pdf
Figure 6-a:
Postfit $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ spectra in the four SRs: SRH1 (upper left), SRZ1 (upper right), SRH2 (lower left), and SRZ2 (lower right). The lower panels show the pull distributions with respect to the best-fit function. The signals with the largest local significances are shown in each SR and are normalized to the observed cross section upper limits.

png pdf
Figure 6-b:
Postfit $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ spectra in the four SRs: SRH1 (upper left), SRZ1 (upper right), SRH2 (lower left), and SRZ2 (lower right). The lower panels show the pull distributions with respect to the best-fit function. The signals with the largest local significances are shown in each SR and are normalized to the observed cross section upper limits.

png pdf
Figure 6-c:
Postfit $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ spectra in the four SRs: SRH1 (upper left), SRZ1 (upper right), SRH2 (lower left), and SRZ2 (lower right). The lower panels show the pull distributions with respect to the best-fit function. The signals with the largest local significances are shown in each SR and are normalized to the observed cross section upper limits.

png pdf
Figure 6-d:
Postfit $ m_{\text{j}\gamma} $ spectra in the four SRs: SRH1 (upper left), SRZ1 (upper right), SRH2 (lower left), and SRZ2 (lower right). The lower panels show the pull distributions with respect to the best-fit function. The signals with the largest local significances are shown in each SR and are normalized to the observed cross section upper limits.

png pdf
Figure 7:
The 95% CL upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching fraction $ \sigma\mathcal{B} $ for $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma $ (upper left) and $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma $ with narrow width (upper right), 5.6% width (lower left), and 10% width (lower right). Observed (expected) limits are shown with solid (dashed) lines. The colored bands represent the 68% and 95% CL intervals for the expected limits. The red line represents the theory benchmark model used for Z' signal simulation.

png pdf
Figure 7-a:
The 95% CL upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching fraction $ \sigma\mathcal{B} $ for $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma $ (upper left) and $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma $ with narrow width (upper right), 5.6% width (lower left), and 10% width (lower right). Observed (expected) limits are shown with solid (dashed) lines. The colored bands represent the 68% and 95% CL intervals for the expected limits. The red line represents the theory benchmark model used for Z' signal simulation.

png pdf
Figure 7-b:
The 95% CL upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching fraction $ \sigma\mathcal{B} $ for $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma $ (upper left) and $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma $ with narrow width (upper right), 5.6% width (lower left), and 10% width (lower right). Observed (expected) limits are shown with solid (dashed) lines. The colored bands represent the 68% and 95% CL intervals for the expected limits. The red line represents the theory benchmark model used for Z' signal simulation.

png pdf
Figure 7-c:
The 95% CL upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching fraction $ \sigma\mathcal{B} $ for $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma $ (upper left) and $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma $ with narrow width (upper right), 5.6% width (lower left), and 10% width (lower right). Observed (expected) limits are shown with solid (dashed) lines. The colored bands represent the 68% and 95% CL intervals for the expected limits. The red line represents the theory benchmark model used for Z' signal simulation.

png pdf
Figure 7-d:
The 95% CL upper limits on the product of production cross section and branching fraction $ \sigma\mathcal{B} $ for $ \mathrm{Z}' \to\mathrm{H}\gamma $ (upper left) and $ \mathrm{S}\to\mathrm{Z}\gamma $ with narrow width (upper right), 5.6% width (lower left), and 10% width (lower right). Observed (expected) limits are shown with solid (dashed) lines. The colored bands represent the 68% and 95% CL intervals for the expected limits. The red line represents the theory benchmark model used for Z' signal simulation.
Tables

png pdf
Table 1:
The sources of systematic uncertainties included in the analysis are detailed. The second column from the left indicates whether an uncertainty applies to the background (B) or signal (S). The next column indicates whether the uncertainty affects the background or signal's shape or its rate. The fourth column from the left lists the magnitude of the corresponding systematic uncertainty. The final column indicates the total number of nuisance parameters (NPs) and whether or not they are treated as correlated across SRs. An asterisk (*) denotes a value or shape template unique to each signal scenario.\\
Summary
A search for heavy resonances decaying to a photon and a Z or H boson in the $ \gamma $+jet final state, using 138 fb$ ^{-1} $ of $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the CMS detector, has been presented. For the $ \mathrm{H}\gamma $ resonance analysis, a benchmark spin-1 resonance model with a small fractional width is considered, while the $ \mathrm{Z}\gamma $ analysis considers a SM Higgs-like heavy spin-0 resonance, using several different width hypotheses. The final states of these resonant processes feature a photon and a massive, large-radius jet containing the decay products of $ \mathrm{H},\mathrm{Z}\to\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $, identified using the PARTICLE TRANSFORMER jet substructure algorithm for jet classification and the PARTICLENET algorithm for jet mass regression. These advanced machine learning techniques greatly improve sensitivity over previous searches. The results are found to be consistent with the standard model predictions within measurement uncertainties. Exclusion limits are set at 95% confidence level as a function of the resonance mass on the product of the production cross section and branching fraction to a photon and a Z or H boson. This result establishes the most stringent constraints to date on the production of such heavy resonances.
References
1 CMS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying to Z($ \nu\bar{\nu} $)V(q$ \bar{\text{q}} $') in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV PRD 106 (2022) 012004 2109.08268
2 CMS Collaboration Search for new heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, or ZH boson pairs in the all-jets final state in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV PLB 844 (2023) 137813 2210.00043
3 CMS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, or WH boson pairs in the lepton plus merged jet final state in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV PRD 105 (2022) 032008 2109.06055
4 CMS Collaboration Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV JHEP 05 (2020) 033 CMS-EXO-19-012
1911.03947
5 CMS Collaboration Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z and a Higgs boson in events with an energetic jet and two electrons, two muons, or missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV JHEP 02 (2025) 089 2411.00202
6 CMS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying to ZZ or ZW and axion-like particles mediating nonresonant ZZ or ZH production at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV JHEP 04 (2022) 087 2111.13669
7 CMS Collaboration Search for a heavy vector resonance decaying to a $ {\mathrm{Z}}_{\mathrm}^{\mathrm} $ boson and a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = 13\,\text {TeV} $ EPJC 81 (2021) 688 2102.08198
8 CMS Collaboration Searches for Higgs boson production through decays of heavy resonances 2403.16926
9 CMS Collaboration Search for Z$ \gamma $ resonances using leptonic and hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV JHEP 09 (2018) 148 CMS-EXO-17-005
1712.03143
10 CMS Collaboration Search for narrow H$ \gamma $ resonances in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV no.~8, 081804, 2019
PRL 122 (2019)
CMS-EXO-17-019
1808.01257
11 CMS Collaboration Search for W$ \gamma $ resonances in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV using hadronic decays of Lorentz-boosted W bosons PLB 826 (2022) 136888 CMS-EXO-20-001
2106.10509
12 CMS Collaboration Search for new physics in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{\textrm{s}} $ = 13 TeV JHEP 08 (2024) 215 CMS-EXO-22-024
2405.09320
13 ATLAS Collaboration Search for resonances decaying into a weak vector boson and a Higgs boson in the fully hadronic final state produced in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector PRD 102 (2020) 112008 2007.05293
14 ATLAS Collaboration Search for heavy diboson resonances in semileptonic final states in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector EPJC 80 (2020) 1165 2004.14636
15 ATLAS Collaboration Search for diboson resonances in hadronic final states in 139 fb$ ^{-1} $ of $ pp $ collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector [Erratum: JHEP 06 () 042], 2019
JHEP 09 (2019) 091
1906.08589
16 ATLAS Collaboration Combination of searches for heavy spin-1 resonances using 139 fb$ ^{-1} $ of proton-proton collision data at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JHEP 04 (2024) 118 2402.10607
17 ATLAS Collaboration Search for resonant WZ production in the fully leptonic final state in proton-proton collisions at $ \mathbf {\sqrt{s} = 13} $ TeV with the ATLAS detector EPJC 83 (2023) 633 2207.03925
18 ATLAS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying into a $ Z $ or $ W $ boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and $ b $-jets in 139 $ $fb$ ^{-1} $ of $ pp $ collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $TeV with the ATLAS detector JHEP 06 (2023) 016 2207.00230
19 ATLAS Collaboration Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139 fb$ ^{-1} $ of $ pp $ collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JHEP 03 (2020) 145 1910.08447
20 CMS Collaboration Precision luminosity measurement in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016 at CMS EPJC 81 (2021) 800 CMS-LUM-17-003
2104.01927
21 CMS Collaboration CMS luminosity measurement for the 2017 data-taking period at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV CMS Physics Analysis Summary, 2018
link
CMS-PAS-LUM-17-004
22 CMS Collaboration CMS luminosity measurement for the 2018 data-taking period at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV CMS Physics Analysis Summary, 2019
link
CMS-PAS-LUM-18-002
23 B. A. Dobrescu, P. J. Fox, and J. Kearney Higgs-photon resonances no.~10, 704, 2017
EPJC 77 (2017)
1705.08433
24 E. Eichten and K. Lane Low-scale technicolor at the Tevatron and LHC PLB 669 (2008) 235 0706.2339
25 A. Freitas and P. Schwaller Multi-photon signals from composite models at LHC JHEP 01 (2011) 022 1010.2528
26 R. Barbieri and R. Torre Signals of single particle production at the earliest LHC PLB 695 (2011) 259 1008.5302
27 I. Low, J. Lykken, and G. Shaughnessy Singlet scalars as Higgs imposters at the Large Hadron Collider PRD 84 (2011) 035027 1105.4587
28 H. Davoudiasl, J. L. Hewett, and T. G. Rizzo Experimental probes of localized gravity: On and off the wall PRD 63 (2001) 075004 hep-ph/0006041
29 B. C. Allanach, J. P. Skittrall, and K. Sridhar Z boson decay to photon plus Kaluza-Klein graviton in large extra dimensions JHEP 11 (2007) 089 0705.1953
30 ATLAS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying to a photon and a hadronically decaying $ Z/W/H $ boson in $ pp $ collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV} $ with the ATLAS detector PRD 98 (2018) 032015 2103.02708
31 ATLAS Collaboration Searches for the $ Z\gamma $ decay mode of the Higgs boson and for new high-mass resonances in $ pp $ collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector JHEP 10 (2017) 112 1708.00212
32 H. Qu and L. Gouskos ParticleNet: Jet Tagging via Particle Clouds PRD 101 (2020) 056019 1902.08570
33 CMS Collaboration Mass regression of highly-boosted jets using graph neural networks CMS Detector Performance Summary CMS-DP-2021-017, CERN, 2021
CDS
34 A. J. Larkoski, S. Marzani, G. Soyez, and J. Thaler Soft drop JHEP 05 (2014) 146 1402.2657
35 H. Qu, C. Li, and S. Qian Particle Transformer for Jet Tagging 2202.03772
36 CMS Collaboration The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC JINST 3 (2008) S08004
37 CMS Collaboration Development of the CMS detector for the CERN LHC Run 3 no.~05, P05064, 2024
JINST 19 (2024)
CMS-PRF-21-001
2309.05466
38 CMS Collaboration Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13\,TeV JINST 15 (2020) P10017 CMS-TRG-17-001
2006.10165
39 CMS Collaboration The CMS trigger system JINST 12 (2017) P01020 CMS-TRG-12-001
1609.02366
40 CMS Collaboration Performance of the CMS high-level trigger during LHC run 2 JINST 19 (2024) P11021 CMS-TRG-19-001
2410.17038
41 CMS Collaboration Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC JINST 16 (2021) P05014 CMS-EGM-17-001
2012.06888
42 CMS Collaboration Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV JINST 13 (2018) P06015 CMS-MUO-16-001
1804.04528
43 CMS Collaboration Description and performance of track and primary-vertex reconstruction with the CMS tracker JINST 9 (2014) P10009 CMS-TRK-11-001
1405.6569
44 CMS Collaboration Performance of photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $8 TeV JINST 10 (2015) P08010 CMS-EGM-14-001
1502.02702
45 CMS Collaboration Technical proposal for the Phase-II upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid CMS Technical Proposal CERN-LHCC-2015-010, CMS-TDR-15-02, 2015
CDS
46 CMS Collaboration Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector JINST 12 (2017) P10003 CMS-PRF-14-001
1706.04965
47 M. Cacciari, G. P. Salam, and G. Soyez The anti-$ k_{\mathrm{T}} $ jet clustering algorithm JHEP 04 (2008) 063 0802.1189
48 M. Cacciari, G. P. Salam, and G. Soyez FastJet user manual EPJC 72 (2012) 1896 1111.6097
49 CMS Collaboration Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV JINST 12 (2017) P02014 CMS-JME-13-004
1607.03663
50 CMS Collaboration Pileup mitigation at CMS in 13 TeV data JINST 15 (2020) P09018 CMS-JME-18-001
2003.00503
51 D. Bertolini, P. Harris, M. Low, and N. Tran Pileup Per Particle Identification JHEP 10 (2014) 059 1407.6013
52 CMS Collaboration Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV JINST 12 (2017) P02014 CMS-JME-13-004
1607.03663
53 CMS Collaboration Jet algorithms performance in 13 TeV data CMS Physics Analysis Summary, 2017
CMS-PAS-JME-16-003
CMS-PAS-JME-16-003
54 E. Bols et al. Jet Flavour Classification Using DeepJet JINST 15 (2020) P12012 2008.10519
55 CMS Collaboration Performance of the DeepJet b tagging algorithm using 41.9 fb$ ^{-1} $ of data from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV with Phase-1 CMS detector CMS Detector Performance Note CMS-DP-2018-058, 2018
CDS
56 CMS Collaboration Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13\,TeV using the CMS detector JINST 14 (2019) P07004 CMS-JME-17-001
1903.06078
57 G. Louppe, M. Kagan, and K. Cranmer Learning to Pivot with Adversarial Networks 1611.01046
58 CMS Collaboration Performance of the CMS muon detector and muon reconstruction with proton-proton collisions at $ {\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV JINST 13 (2018) P06015 CMS-MUO-16-001
1804.04528
59 CMS Collaboration Performance of electron reconstruction and selection with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 8 TeV JINST 10 (2015) P06005 CMS-EGM-13-001
1502.02701
60 J. Alwall et al. The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations JHEP 07 (2014) 079 1405.0301
61 T. Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, and P. Z. Skands A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Comput. Phys. Commun. 178 (2008) 852 0710.3820
62 J. Alwall et al. The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations JHEP 07 (2014) 079 1405.0301
63 T. Sjöstrand et al. An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2 Comput. Phys. Commun. 191 (2015) 159 1410.3012
64 CMS Collaboration Extraction and validation of a new set of CMS PYTHIA8 tunes from underlying-event measurements EPJC 80 (2020) 4 CMS-GEN-17-001
1903.12179
65 GEANT4 Collaboration GEANT 4---a simulation toolkit NIM A 506 (2003) 250
66 M. J. Oreglia A study of the reactions $ \psi^\prime \to \gamma \gamma \psi $ PhD thesis, Stanford University, . SLAC Report SLAC-R-236, 1980
link
67 A. L. Read Linear interpolation of histograms --360, 1999
NIM A 425 (1999) 357
68 CMS Collaboration Inclusive search for highly boosted Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV JHEP 12 (2020) 085 CMS-HIG-19-003
2006.13251
69 CMS Collaboration Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair at $ \sqrt{s} $= 13 TeV JHEP 05 (2022) 005 2112.03161
70 CMS Collaboration Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks no.~4, 041803, 2023
PRL 131 (2023)
2205.06667
71 CMS Collaboration A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to charm quarks JHEP 03 (2020) 131 CMS-HIG-18-031
1912.01662
72 CMS Collaboration Search for Higgs boson pair production with one associated vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV JHEP 10 (2024) 061 CMS-HIG-22-006
2404.08462
73 CMS Collaboration Calibration of the mass-decorrelated ParticleNet tagger for boosted $ \mathrm{b}\bar{\mathrm{b}} $ and $ \mathrm{c}\bar{\mathrm{c}} $ jets using LHC Run 2 data Mar, 2022
CDS
74 CMS Collaboration Performance of the boosted object and jet tagging algorithms in run 3 with the cms experiment CMS Physics Analysis Summary, 2022
CMS-PAS-BTV-22-001
CMS-PAS-BTV-22-001
75 CMS Collaboration The CMS Statistical Analysis and Combination Tool: Combine no.~1, 19, 2024
Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 8 (2024)
CMS-CAT-23-001
2404.06614
76 P. D. Dauncey, M. Kenzie, N. Wardle, and G. J. Davies Handling uncertainties in background shapes: the discrete profiling method no.~04, P04015, 2015
JINST 10 (2015)
1408.6865
77 CMS Collaboration Observation of the Diphoton Decay of the Higgs Boson and Measurement of Its Properties no.~10, 3076, 2014
EPJC 74 (2014)
CMS-HIG-13-001
1407.0558
78 ATLAS, CMS Collaboration Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $ pp $ Collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments PRL 114 (2015) 191803 1503.07589
79 CMS Collaboration Search for physics beyond the standard model in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV no.~9, 09, 2018
PRD 98 (2018)
CMS-EXO-17-017
1809.00327
80 CMS Collaboration Search for resonant and nonresonant production of pairs of dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV JHEP 07 (2023) 161 CMS-EXO-21-010
2206.09997
81 CMS Collaboration Search for physics beyond the standard model in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV PRD 98 (2018) 092001 CMS-EXO-17-017
1809.00327
82 H. F. Tsoi et al. SymbolFit: Automatic Parametric Modeling with Symbolic Regression - (11, ), 2024 2411.09851
83 CMS Collaboration Measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross section at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV JHEP 07 (2018) 161 CMS-FSQ-15-005
1802.02613
84 G. Cowan, K. Cranmer, E. Gross, and O. Vitells Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics EPJC 71 (2011) 1554 1007.1727
Compact Muon Solenoid
LHC, CERN