Search for Higgs boson pair production with one associated vector boson in proton-proton collisions at s \sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

Collaboration
Apr 12, 2024
59 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2024) 061
  • Published: Oct 8, 2024
    and
  • Published: Oct, 2024
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CMS-HIG-22-006,
  • CERN-EP-2024-064
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production in association with a vector boson V (W or Z boson) is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb1^{−1}. Both hadronic and leptonic decays of V bosons are used. The leptons considered are electrons, muons, and neutrinos. The HH production is searched for in the bbbb \textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}}\textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}} decay channel. An observed (expected) upper limit at 95% confidence level of VHH production cross section is set at 294 (124) times the standard model prediction. Constraints are also set on the modifiers of the Higgs boson trilinear self-coupling, kλ_{λ}, assuming k2V_{2V} = 1, and vice versa on the coupling of two Higgs bosons with two vector bosons, k2V_{2V}. The observed (expected) 95% confidence intervals of these coupling modifiers are −37.7 < kλ_{λ} < 37.2 (−30.1 < kλ_{λ} < 28.9) and −12.2 < k2V_{2V} < 13.5 (−7.2 < k2V_{2V} < 8.9), respectively.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Higgs Physics
  • Vector Boson Production
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: pair production
  • Z0: associated production
  • W: associated production
  • Higgs particle: coupling
  • vector boson: associated production