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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)160
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Phenomenological Models; Jets
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- DoE [DE-FG-02-92ER40704, DE-FG-02-91ER40676]
- LHC Theory Initiative [NSF-PHY-0969510]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [969510] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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New particles at the TeV-scale may have sizeable decay rates into boosted Higgs bosons or other heavy scalars. Here, we investigate the possibility of identifying such processes when the Higgs/scalar subsequently decays into a pair of W bosons, constituting a highly distinctive diboson-jet. These can appear as a simple dilepton (plus E-T) configuration, as a two-prong jet with an embedded lepton, or as a four-prong jet. We study jet substructure methods to discriminate these objects from their dominant backgrounds. We then demonstrate the use of these techniques in the search for a heavy spin-one Z' boson, such as may arise from strong dynamics or an extended gauge sector, utilizing the decay chain Z' -> Zh -> Z(WW(*)). We find that modes with multiple boosted hadronic Zs and Ws tend to offer the best prospects for the highest accessible masses. For 100 fb(-1) luminosity at the 14 TeV LHC, Z' decays into a standard 125 GeV Higgs can be observed with 5 sigma significance for masses of 1.5-2.5 TeV for a range of models. For a 200 GeV Higgs (requiring nonstandard couplings, such as fermiophobic), the reach may improve to up to 2.5-3.0 TeV.
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