Speaker
Giorgia Rauco
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Description
A search is presented for single production of a heavy vector-like quark (VLQ) B in its full-hadronic decay channel: $B \rightarrow bH(\bar{b}{b})$. Higgs-tagging methods and jet substructure techniques are employed to identify decay products of boosted Higgs boson and to discriminate signal-like events against multijet background. Signal sensitivity is also enhanced by the identification of forward jets, as their presence is a peculiar feature of VLQs single production signature. The search is performed using proton–proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{−1}$.
Authors
Giorgia Rauco
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Florencia Canelli
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Annapaola De Cosa
(Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
