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  "abstract": "A study of the production of pairs of Z bosons (ZZ) and of the associated production of a Z boson and a Higgs boson (ZH) in final states containing two b quarks and two tau leptons (bb$ττ$) is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collisions collected at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The nonresonant analysis targets the standard model ZZ and ZH processes in the bb$ττ$ final state, motivated by the prominent role of this channel in searches for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production. The resonant searches target physics beyond the standard model, probing heavy spin-0 resonances X that decay into ZZ and spin-1 resonances Z' that decay into ZH, with masses in the 0.2$-$5 and 0.5$-$6 TeV ranges, respectively. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of production rate and branching fraction $σ$(X)$\\mathcal{B}$(X $\\to$ ZZ), ranging from 300 pb to 24 fb, and $σ$(Z')$\\mathcal{B}$(Z' $\\to$ ZH), ranging from 0.4 pb to 12 fb. These are the first measurements to probe the ZZ/ZH $\\to$ bb$ττ$ processes. No deviation from standard model expectations is observed.",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01589",
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  "published": "2026-09-21",
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  "title": "Study of ZZ and ZH production in the bb$ττ$ final state and search for high-mass spin-0 and spin-1 resonances in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV",
  "title_text": "Study of ZZ and ZH production in the bbττ final state and search for high-mass spin-0 and spin-1 resonances in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV",
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