Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
7-13-2023
Citation
PHYSICAL REVIEW D 108, 012009 (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.012009
Abstract
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 theCMS 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 newparticles 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.
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