Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

A.SnigirevJr.The CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140534

Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

A.SnigirevJr.The CMS Collaboration

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A search is conducted for standard model Higgs bosons with large transverse momentum ( p _T) decaying to bottom quark pairs and produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson at the LHC. The result is based on a dataset of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeVcollected with the CMS detector in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb⁻¹. Boosted Higgs, W, and Z boson decays are reconstructed using large-radius jets with p _T > 450 GeV and identified with heavy-flavor classifiers based on a graph convolutional neural network. The observed signal strength relative to the standard model expectation is μ=0.72_−0.71^+0.75 including statistical and systematic uncertainties.

Original language	English
Article number	140534
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	879
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140534
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2026

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CMS
Higgs boson
Vector boson associated production

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Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

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