Search for a new resonance decaying into two spin-0 bosons in a final state with two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV
Collaboration
46 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 05 (2024) 316
- Published: May 29, 2024and
- Published: May, 2024
e-Print:
- 2310.01643 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- CMS-HIG-21-011,
- CERN-EP-2023-132
Experiments:
- CERN-LHC-CMS,
- CERN-LHC-CMS
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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for a new boson X is presented using CERN LHC proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at = 13 TeV in 2016–2018, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb. The resonance X decays into either a pair of Higgs bosons HH of mass 125 GeV or an H and a new spin-0 boson Y. One H subsequently decays to a pair of photons, and the second H or Y, to a pair of bottom quarks. The explored mass ranges of X are 260–1000 GeV and 300–1000 GeV, for decays to HH and to HY, respectively, with the Y mass range being 90–800 GeV. For a spin-0 X hypothesis, the 95% confidence level upper limit on the product of its production cross section and decay branching fraction is observed to be within 0.90–0.04 fb, depending on the masses of X and Y. The largest deviation from the background-only hypothesis with a local (global) significance of 3.8 (below 2.8) standard deviations is observed for X and Y masses of 650 and 90 GeV, respectively. The limits are interpreted using several models of new physics.[graphic not available: see fulltext]Note:
- All the figures and tables, including additional supplementary figures, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIG-21-011 (CMS Public Pages)
- B Physics
- Hadron-Hadron Scattering
- Higgs Physics
- Photon Production
- p p: scattering
- p p: colliding beams
- resonance: production
- resonance: decay modes
- boson: scalar
- boson: pair production
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