Kaiping Neutrino Research Center
The ubiquity of top-rich final states in the context of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) searches has led to their status as extensively studied signatures at the LHC. Over the past decade, numerous endeavours have been undertaken in the literature to develop methods for efficiently distinguishing boosted top quark jets from QCD jets. Although cut-based strategies for boosted top tagging, which rely on substructure information from fat jets resulting from the hadronic decay of boosted top quarks, were introduced in the literature as early as 2008, recent years have witnessed a surge in the utilization of machine learning-based approaches for the classification of top-jets from QCD jets. The review focuses on the present status of boosted top tagging and its application for BSM searchers.
Despite intensive searches at the LHC, no new fundamental particle has been discovered since the discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. In general, a new physics discovery is challenging without a UV-complete model because different channels and observables cannot be combined directly and unambiguously. Moreover, without indirect hints for new particles, the parameter space to be searched is huge, resulting in diminished significance due to the look-elsewhere effect. Several LHC searches with multiple leptons in the final state point towards the existence of a new Higgs boson with a mass in the 140-160 GeV range, decaying mostly to a pair of W bosons. This dominant decay mode motivates a Higgs triplet with zero hypercharge, which also predicts a heavier-than-expected WW-boson as indicated by the CDF-II measurement. Within this simple and predictive model, we simulate and combine channels of associated di-photon production. Considering the run-2 results of ATLAS, including those presented recently at the Moriond conference, a significance of 4.3σ\sigma is obtained for a mass of 152 GeV. This is the largest statistical evidence for a new narrow resonance observed at the LHC.
The multi-lepton anomalies and searches for the associated production of a narrow resonance indicate the existence of a \approx151 GeV Higgs with a significance of >5σ>5\sigma and >3.9σ>3.9\sigma, respectively. On the one hand, these anomalies require a sizable branching fraction of the new scalar to WWWW, while on the other hand, no ZZZZ signal at this mass has been observed. This suggests that the new boson is the neutral component of an SU(2)LSU(2)_L triplet with zero hypercharge. This field leads to a positive definite shift in the WW mass, as preferred by the current global fit, and is produced via the Drell-Yan process ppWΔ0Δ±pp\to W^*\to \Delta^0\Delta^\pm. We use the side-bands of the ATLAS analysis \cite{ATLAS:2023omk} of the associated production of the Standard Model Higgs in the di-photon channel to search for this production mode of the triplet. Since the dominant decays of Δ±\Delta^\pm depend only on its mass, the effect in the 22 signal categories considered by ATLAS is completely correlated. We find that the ones most sensitive to the Drell-Yan production of the triplet Higgs show consistent excesses at a mass of \approx151.5 GeV. Combining these channels in a likelihood ratio test, a non-zero Br[Δ0γγ]=0.66%[\Delta^0\to\gamma\gamma] = 0.66\% is preferred by \approx3σ\sigma, supporting our conjecture.
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