Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in the b b ¯ b b ¯ bb‾bb‾ final state at s √s = 13 TeV
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Sirunyan2019_Article_SearchForNonresonantHiggsBoson.pdf
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Author(s)
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, B.
Azzolini, Virginia
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, R.
Brandt, S.
Busza, Wit
Cali, I. A.
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Date Issued
April 2019
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
CMS Collaboration (Sirunyan, A.M. et al.) "Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbbb final state at s √s = 13 TeV." Journal of High Energy Physics 2019 (April 2019): 112 doi 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)112 ©2019 Author(s)
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Abstract
Results of a search for nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs, with each Higgs boson decaying to a b[line over b] pair, are presented. This search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb −1 , collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. No signal is observed, and a 95% confidence level upper limit of 847 fb is set on the cross section for standard model nonresonant Higgs boson pair production times the squared branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay to a b[line over b] pair. The same signature is studied, and upper limits are set, in the context of models of physics beyond the standard model that predict modified couplings of the Higgs boson.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)112
