Inclusive search for a highly boosted Higgs boson decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pairстатья
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Аннотация:An inclusive search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) produced with large transverse momentum (pT) and decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair (bb¯¯¯) is performed using a data set of pp collisions at s√= 13 TeV collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. A highly Lorentz-boosted Higgs boson decaying to bb¯¯¯ is reconstructed as a single, large radius jet and is identified using jet substructure and dedicated b tagging techniques. The method is validated with Z→bb¯¯¯ decays. The Z→bb¯¯¯ process is observed for the first time in the single-jet topology with a local significance of 5.1 standard deviations (5.8 expected). For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events above the expected background is observed (expected) with a local significance of 1.5 (0.7) standard deviations. The measured cross section times branching fraction for production via gluon fusion of H→bb¯¯¯ with pT>450 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range −2.5 <η< 2.5 is 74±48 (stat) +17−10 (syst) fb, which is consistent within uncertainties with the standard model prediction.