Inclusive search for boosted Higgs bosons using H$\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}$ decays with the CMS experiment

Abstract

We present the first search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) produced with large transverse momentum (${\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{T}}$) via gluon fusion and decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair ($\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}$). The search is performed using a data set of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb${}^{-1}$. A highly Lorentz-boosted Higgs boson decaying to $\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}$ is reconstructed as a single, large radius jet and is identified using jet substructure and dedicated b tagging techniques. The method is validated with the first observation of the Z$\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}$ process in the single-jet topology, with a local significance of 5.1 standard deviations (5.8 expected).

7 pages, 2 figures, The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 5-12 July, 2017, Venice

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