Hayrapetyan, A.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J.W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.2026-04-252026-04-2520251029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2025)089https://hdl.handle.net/11486/7997A search is presented for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z boson and a Higgs (H) boson. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1, recorded with the CMS experiment in the years 2016–2018. Resonance masses between 1.4 and 5 TeV are considered, resulting in large transverse momenta of the Z and H bosons. Final states that result from Z boson decays to pairs of electrons, muons, or neutrinos are considered. The H boson is reconstructed as a single large-radius jet, recoiling against the Z boson. Machine-learning flavour-tagging techniques are employed to identify decays of a Lorentz-boosted H boson into pairs of charm or bottom quarks, or into four quarks via the intermediate H → WW* and ZZ* decays. The analysis targets H boson decays that were not generally included in previous searches using the H → bb¯ channel. Compared with previous analyses, the sensitivity for high resonance masses is improved significantly in the channel where at most one b quark is tagged. © The Author(s) 2025.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBeyond Standard ModelHadron-Hadron ScatteringJetsVector Boson ProductionArticle2025210.1007/JHEP02(2025)0892-s2.0-105012490334Q1