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Measurements in the highly Lorentz-boosted regime provoke increased interest in probing the Higgs boson properties and in searching for particles beyond the standard model at the LHC. In the CMS Collaboration, various boosted-object tagging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-14 CMS Collaboration

A search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark and a bottom quark is presented. The data analysed correspond to 139 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=13TeV, recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-13 ATLAS Collaboration

At proposed future hadron colliders and in the coming years at the LHC, top quarks will be produced at genuinely multi-TeV energies. Top-tagging at such high energies forces us to confront several new issues in terms of detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Zhenyu Han , Minho Son , Brock Tweedie

We construct a procedure to separate boosted Higgs bosons decaying into hadrons, from the background due to strong interactions. We employ the Lund jet plane to obtain a theoretically well-motivated representation of the jets of interest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Charanjit K. Khosa , Simone Marzani

We introduce a new jet shape -- N-subjettiness -- designed to identify boosted hadronically-decaying objects like electroweak bosons and top quarks. Combined with a jet invariant mass cut, N-subjettiness is an effective discriminating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jesse Thaler , Ken Van Tilburg

Signature of heavier charged Higgs boson, much above the top quark mass, is investigated at the LHC Run 2 experiments, following its decay mode via top and bottom quark focusing on both hadronic and leptonic signal final states. The generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-07 Monoranjan Guchait , Aravind H. Vijay

A search is made for a vector-like $T$ quark decaying into a Higgs boson and a top quark in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-19 ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement is reported of the jet mass distribution in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-27 CMS Collaboration

High mass resonances decaying into ttbar pairs appear in many extensions of the Standard Model. The top quarks from these decays have high transverse momenta and their decay products are highly collimated due to the boost into the lab…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Gavril Giurgiu

We study the detector performance in the reconstruction of hadronically-decaying W bosons and Higgs bosons at very high energy proton colliders using a full GEANT4 simulation of the SiFCC detector. The W and Higgs bosons carry transverse…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-04 Shin-Shan Yu , Sergei Chekanov , Lindsey Gray , Ashutosh Kotwal , Sourav Sen , Nhan Viet Tran

Boosted top quark tagging is one of the challenging, and at the same time exciting, tasks in high energy physics experiments, in particular in the exploration of new physics signals at the LHC. Several techniques have already been developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Amit Chakraborty , Amandip De , Rohini M. Godbole , Monoranjan Guchait

The ubiquity of top-rich final states in the context of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) searches has led to their status as extensively studied signatures at the LHC. Over the past decade, numerous endeavours have been undertaken in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Rameswar Sahu , Saiyad Ashanujjaman , Kirtiman Ghosh

Measurements are made of differential cross-sections of highly boosted pair-produced top quarks as a function of top-quark and $t\bar{t}$ system kinematic observables using proton--proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} =…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-31 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for a heavy resonance decaying into a top quark and a W boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV is presented. The data analyzed were recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-09 CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for a charged Higgs boson heavier than the top quark, produced in association with a top quark, or with a top and a bottom quark, and decaying into a top-bottom quark-antiquark pair. The search is performed using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-31 CMS Collaboration

The charged Higgs boson ($H^\pm$) with a mass below the top quark mass remains a viable possibility within the Type-I two-Higgs-doublet model under current constraints. While previous LHC searches have primarily focused on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-08 Jinheung Kim , Soojin Lee , Prasenjit Sanyal , Jeonghyeon Song , Daohan Wang

A method is proposed for distinguishing highly boosted hadronically decaying W's (W-jets) from QCD-jets using jet substructure. Previous methods, such as the filtering/mass-drop method, can give a factor of ~2 improvement in S/sqrt(B) for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Yanou Cui , Zhenyu Han , Matthew D. Schwartz

Differential cross-section measurements of highly boosted top quarks are presented. The dataset used has an integrated luminosity of $3.2$ fb$^{-1}$, recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-01 Michael James Fenton

A search for heavy resonances with masses above 1 TeV, decaying to final states containing a vector boson and a Higgs boson, is presented. The search considers hadronic decays of the vector boson, and Higgs boson decays to b quarks. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-26 CMS Collaboration

We investigate the charged Higgs boson signal at the LHC using its dominant production and decay modes with triple b-tagging, i.e. $tH^- \to t\bar tb \to b\bar bb W^+ W^-$, followed by leptonic decay of one W and hadronic decay of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Moretti , D. P. Roy