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Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final states with two bottom quarks and two photons in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)257
Author(s)
Sirunyan, AM
Tumasyan, A
Adam, W
Ambrogi, F
Asilar, E
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A search for nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs via gluon-gluon and vector boson fusion processes in final states with two bottom quarks and two photons is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s√ = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. No significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed. An upper limit at 95% confidence level is set on the product of the Higgs boson pair production cross section and branching fraction into γγbb¯¯¯. The observed (expected) upper limit is determined to be 0.67 (0.45) fb, which corresponds to 7.7 (5.2) times the standard model prediction. This search has the highest sensitivity to Higgs boson pair production to date. Assuming all other Higgs boson couplings are equal to their values in the standard model, the observed coupling modifiers of the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling κλ and the coupling between a pair of Higgs bosons and a pair of vector bosons c2V are constrained within the ranges −3.3 < κλ < 8.5 and −1.3 < c2V < 3.5 at 95% confidence level. Constraints on κλ are also set by combining this analysis with a search for single Higgs bosons decaying to two photons, produced in association with top quark-antiquark pairs, and by performing a simultaneous fit of κλ and the top quark Yukawa coupling modifier κt.
Date Issued
2021-03-29
Date Acceptance
2021-02-18
Citation
The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, 2021 (3), pp.1-57
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/88343
URL
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP03%282021%29257
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)257
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Start Page
1
End Page
57
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2021
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). 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.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Higgs physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 257
Date Publish Online
2021-03-29
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