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Tumasyan, Armen; Adam, Wolfgang; Andrejkovic, Janik Walter; Bergauer, Thomas; Chatterjee, Suman; Damanakis, Konstantinos; Dragicevic, Marko; Escalante Del Valle, Alberto; Hussain, Priya Sajid; Jeitler, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137783

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a pair of electrons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

CMS

Collaboration

Jul 30, 2022

28 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 846 (2023) 137783

Published: Sep 17, 2023

e-Print:

2208.00265 [hep-ex]

DOI:

10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137783 (publication)

PDG:

{{\mathit H}}

\rightarrow

{{\mathit e}^{+}}{{\mathit e}^{-}}

Report number:

CMS-HIG-21-015,
CERN-EP-2022-131

Experiments:

CERN-LHC-CMS

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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)

A search is presented for the Higgs boson decay to a pair of electrons (Image 1) in proton-proton collisions at

\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

. The data set was collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC between 2016 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of

138 {fb}^{- 1}

. The analysis uses event categories targeting Higgs boson production via gluon fusion and vector boson fusion. The observed upper limit on the Higgs boson branching fraction to an electron pair is

3.0 \times 10^{- 4}

(

3.0 \times 10^{- 4}

expected) at the 95% confidence level, which is the most stringent limit on this branching fraction to date.

Note:

All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIG-21-015 (CMS Public Pages)

CMS
Higgs
Electrons
BSM
p p: colliding beams
Higgs particle: hadroproduction
Higgs particle: leptonic decay
p p: scattering
Higgs particle: branching ratio: upper limit
gluon gluon: fusion

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