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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

Aad, G. ; Åkesson, T.P.A. LU orcid ; Doglioni, C. LU ; Ekman, P.A. LU ; Hedberg, V. LU ; Herde, H. LU orcid ; Konya, B. LU ; Lytken, E. LU orcid ; Poettgen, R. LU orcid and Simpson, N.D. LU , et al. (2024) In Journal of High Energy Physics 2024(2).
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+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... (More)
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+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. © The Author(s) 2024. (Less)
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Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Higgs Physics, Proton-Proton Scattering
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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2024
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37
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10.1007/JHEP02(2024)037
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  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+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. © The Author(s) 2024.}},
  author       = {{Aad, G. and Åkesson, T.P.A. and Doglioni, C. and Ekman, P.A. and Hedberg, V. and Herde, H. and Konya, B. and Lytken, E. and Poettgen, R. and Simpson, N.D. and Smirnova, O. and Zwalinski, L.}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Journal of High Energy Physics}},
  title        = {{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}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)037}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/JHEP02(2024)037}},
  volume       = {{2024}},
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