Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks

Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Damanakis, K.; Dragicevic, M.; Del Valle, A. Escalante; Hussain, P. S.; Jeitler, M.; Krammer, N.; Lechner, L.; Liko, D.; Mikulec, I.; Paulitsch, P.; Pitters, F. M.; Schieck, J.; Schoefbeck, R.; Schwarz, D.; Templ, S.; Waltenberger, W.; Wulz, C. -E.; Darwish, M. R.; Janssen, T.; Kello, T.; Sfar, H. Rejeb; Van Mechelen, P.; Bols, E. S.; D'Hondt, J.; De Moor, A.; Delcourt, M.; El Faham, H.; Lowette, S.; Moortgat, S.; Morton, A.; Mueller, D.; Sahasransu, A. R.; Tavernier, S.; Van Doninck, W.; Vannerom, D.; Clerbaux, B.; De Lentdecker, G.; Favart, L.; Hohov, D.; Jaramillo, J.; Lee, K.; Mahdavikhorrami, M.; Makarenko, I.; Malara, A.; Paredes, S.; Petre, L.; Postiau, N.; Thomas, L.; Vanden Bemden, M.; Vander Velde, C.; Vanlaer, P.; Dobur, D.; Knolle, J.; Lambrecht, L.; Mestdach, G.; Niedziela, M.; Rendon, C.; Roskas, C.; Samalan, A.; Skovpen, K.; Tytgat, M.; Van den Bossche, N.; Vermassen, B.; Wezenbeek, L.; Benecke, A.; Bruno, G.; Bury, F.; Caputo, C.; David, P.; Delaere, C.; Donertas, I. S.; Giammanco, A.; Jaffel, K.; Jain, Sa.; Lemaitre, V.; Mondal, K.; Taliercio, A.; Tran, T. T.; Vischia, P.; Wertz, S.; Alves, G. A.; Coelho, E.; Hensel, C.; Moraes, A.; Rebello Teles, P.; Alda Junior, W. L.; Alves Gallo Pereira, M.; Barroso Ferreira Filho, M.; Brandao Malbouisson, H.; Carvalho, W.; Chinellato, J.; Da Costa, E. M.; Da Silveira, G. G.; De Jesus Damiao, D.; Dos Santos Sousa, V.; et al.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041803

research article

Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks

Tumasyan, A.

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Adam, W.

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Andrejkovic, J. W.

July 25, 2023

Physical Review Letters

A search for nonresonant Higgs boson (H) pair production via gluon and vector boson (V) fusion is performed in the four-bottom-quark final state, using proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV corresponding to 138 fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis targets Lorentz-boosted H pairs identified using a graph neural network. It constrains the strengths relative to the standard model of the H self-coupling and the quartic VVHH couplings, & kappa;2V, excluding & kappa;2V 1/4 0 for the first time, with a significance of 6.3 standard deviations when other H couplings are fixed to their standard model values.