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Search for massive resonances in dijet systems containing jets tagged as W or Z boson decays in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

Abstract

A search is reported for massive resonances decaying into a quark and a vector boson (W or Z), or two vector bosons (WW, WZ, or ZZ). The analysis is performed on an inclusive sample of multijet events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb^(−1), collected in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The search uses novel jet-substructure identification techniques that provide sensitivity to the presence of highly boosted vector bosons decaying into a pair of quarks. Exclusion limits are set at a confidence level of 95% on the production of: (i) excited quark resonances q^* decaying to qW and qZ for masses less than 3.2 TeV and 2.9 TeV, respectively, (ii) a Randall-Sundrum graviton GRS decaying into WW for masses below 1.2 TeV, and (iii) a heavy partner of the W boson W′ decaying into WZ for masses less than 1.7 TeV. For the first time mass limits are set on W′ → WZ and G_(RS) → WW in the all-jets final state. The mass limits on q^* → qW, q^* → qZ, W′ → WZ, G_(RS) → WW are the most stringent to date. A model with a "bulk" graviton Gbulk that decays into WW or ZZ bosons is also studied.

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© 2014 Open Access CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Received: May 8, 2014. Revised: July 18, 2014. Accepted: August 22, 2014. Published: August 29, 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund; and the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF.

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BMWFW and FWF (Austria)
FNRS and FWO (Belgium)
CNPq (Brazil)
CAPES (Brazil)
FAPERJ (Brazil)
FAPESP (Brazil)
MES (Bulgaria)
CERN
CAS
MoST and NSFC (China)
COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
MSES and CSF (Croatia)
RPF (Cyprus)
MoER
ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia)
Academy of Finland
MEC (Finland)
HIP (Finland)
CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
BMBF (Germany)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
HGF (Germany)
GSRT (Greece)
OTKA and NIH (Hungary)
DAE and DST (India)
IPM (Iran)
Science Foundation, Ireland
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
NRF and WCU (Korea)
LAS (Lithuania)
MOE and UM (Malaysia)
CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
MBIE (New Zealand)
PAEC (Pakistan)
MSHE and NSC (Poland)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
JINR (Dubna)
MON
RosAtom
RAS and RFBR (Russia)
MESTD (Serbia)
SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
MST (Tapei)
ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand)
TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
NASU and SFFR (Ukraine)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Department of Energy (DOE)
NSF
Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union)
Leventis Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic
Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science
Regional Development Fund
Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF
Greek NSRF

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