Search for narrow resonances in the b -tagged dijet mass spectrum in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13  TeV

• Autor(a) principal: Tumasyan, Armen
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silveira, Gustavo Gil da, Bernardes, César Augusto, CMS Collaboration
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/270841
• topic: Colisões proton-proton; Aceleradores de partículas; Quarks

A search is performed for narrow resonances decaying to final states of two jets, with at least one jet originating from a b quark, in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV . The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138  fb − 1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Jets originating from energetic b hadrons are identified through a b -tagging algorithm that utilizes a deep neural network or the presence of a muon inside a jet. The invariant mass spectrum of jet pairs is well described by a smooth parametrization and no evidence for the production of new particles is observed. Upper limits on the production cross section are set for excited b quarks and other resonances decaying to dijet final states containing b quarks. These limits exclude at 95% confidence level models of Z ′ bosons with masses from 1.8 TeV to 2.4 TeV and of excited b quarks with masses from 1.8 TeV to 4.0 TeV. This is the most stringent exclusion of excited b quarks to date.