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Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying into a Photon and a Hadronically Decaying Higgs Boson in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{}\text{}\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS Detector

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This Letter presents a search for the production of new heavy resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a photon using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{}\text{}\mathrm{TeV}$ collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of $139\text{}\text{}{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$. The analysis is performed by reconstructing hadronically decaying Higgs boson $\left(H\to b\overline{b}\right)$ candidates as single large-radius jets. A novel algorithm using information about the jet constituents in the center-of-mass frame of the jet is implemented to identify the two $b$ quarks in the single jet. No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. Upper limits are set on the production cross-section times branching fraction for narrow spin-1 resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a photon in the resonance mass range from 0.7 to 4 TeV, cross-section times branching fractions are excluded between 11.6 fb and 0.11 fb at a 95% confidence level.

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