Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the 2b+2ℓ+ETmiss final state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Beitragende

  • University of Oklahoma
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules LAPP
  • AGH University of Science and Technology
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Manchester
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • The University of Chicago
  • Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)
  • Università degli Studi di Pavia
  • Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • McGill University
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • Zhengzhou University
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • University of Valencia
  • Polska Akademia Nauk

Abstract

A search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair (HH) production is presented, in which one of the Higgs bosons decays to a b-quark pair (bb¯) and the other decays to WW*, ZZ*, or τ+τ, with in each case a final state with ℓ++ neutrinos (ℓ = e, μ). The analysis targets separately the gluon-gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes. Data recorded by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1, are used in this analysis. Events are selected to have exactly two b-tagged jets and two leptons with opposite electric charge and missing transverse momentum in the final state. These events are classified using multivariate analysis algorithms to separate the HH events from other Standard Model processes. No evidence of the signal is found. The observed (expected) upper limit on the cross-section for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is determined to be 9.7 (16.2) times the Standard Model prediction at 95% confidence level. The Higgs boson self-interaction coupling parameter κλ and the quadrilinear coupling parameter κ2V are each separately constrained by this analysis to be within the ranges [−6.2, 13.3] and [−0.17, 2.4], respectively, at 95% confidence level, when all other parameters are fixed.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer37
Seiten (von - bis)1-47
Seitenumfang1
FachzeitschriftJournal of high energy physics
Jahrgang2024
Ausgabenummer2
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 7 Feb. 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-6480-6079/work/173049564
ORCID /0000-0003-0546-1634/work/173516685

Schlagworte

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs Physics, Proton-Proton Scattering