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Data driven method for predicting the shape of the dijet mass in $Z\,h + {E_{\rm T}}^{\rm {miss}}$ analysis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-02 v1

Abstract

We present an analysis of new physics searches in ZhZ\,h with missing energy final states at the Large Hadron Collider considering Zl+lZ \to l^+ l^- (where l±=e±,μ±l^\pm = e^\pm, \mu^\pm) and hbbˉh \to b\bar b decay modes. For this analysis we consider production of a CPCP-odd scalar AA through gluon-fusion which decay into a heavy CPCP-even neutral scalar HH with ZZ-boson. Further HH decays into a lighter CPCP-even Higgs boson hh in association with dark matter candidate χ\chi - a source of missing energy. The masses of these scalars are considered as mh=125m_h = 125 GeV, mχ=60m_\chi = 60 GeV, 2mh<mH<2mt2 m_h < m_H < 2 m_t and mA>2mtm_A > 2 m_t. A data-driven method have been applied to reduce the considerable backgrounds from electroweak processes WW+ jets and ZZ+ jets, in addition with top-pair and single-top production. The di-jet mass distributions have been studied with same- and opposite-flavour lepton selections.

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@article{arxiv.1703.00215,
  title  = {Data driven method for predicting the shape of the dijet mass in $Z\,h + {E_{\rm T}}^{\rm {miss}}$ analysis},
  author = {Skhathisomusa Mthembu and Shell May Liao and Tshidiso Molupe and Bruce Mellado and Deepak Kar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00215},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, SAIP2016 conference proceedings, University of Cape Town, Cape Town