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

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inThe journal of high energy physics, vol. 02, no. 2
Publication date2024
First online date2024-02-07
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 ($ b\overline{b} $) and the other decays to WW$^{*}$, ZZ$^{*}$, or τ$^{+}$τ$^{−}$, with in each case a final state with ℓ$^{+}$ℓ$^{−}$+ neutrinos (ℓ = e, μ). The analysis targets separately the gluon-gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes. Data recorded by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{−1}$, are used in this analysis. Events are selected to have exactly two b-tagged jets and two leptons with opposite electric charge and missing transverse momentum in the final state. These events are classified using multivariate analysis algorithms to separate the HH events from other Standard Model processes. No evidence of the signal is found. The observed (expected) upper limit on the cross-section for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is determined to be 9.7 (16.2) times the Standard Model prediction at 95% confidence level. The Higgs boson self-interaction coupling parameter κ$_{λ}$ and the quadrilinear coupling parameter κ$_{2V}$ 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.[graphic not available: see fulltext]

Keywords
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Higgs Physics
  • Proton-Proton Scattering
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Higgs particle: pair production
  • P p: scattering
  • Higgs particle: decay modes
  • Higgs particle: hadronic decay
  • Bottom: pair production
  • Higgs particle: leptonic decay
  • Tau: pair production
  • Vector boson: pair production
  • Transverse momentum: missing-energy
  • Charge: electric
  • Vector boson: fusion
  • Gluon gluon: fusion
  • ATLAS
  • Final state: ((n)jet dilepton)
  • Electron
  • Muon
  • Channel cross section: upper limit
  • Higgs particle: coupling
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S126K2V
  • S126KLA
  • S126SHH
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the 2b + 2ℓ + Emiss T final state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: The journal of high energy physics, 2024, vol. 02, n° 2. doi: 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)037
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)037
Journal ISSN1029-8479
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