Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the bbb¯ b¯ final state using large-area jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Andrejkovic, J. W.
Bergauer, T.
Chatterjee, S.
Damanakis, K.
Dragicevic, M.
Escalante Del Valle, A.
Frühwirth, R.
Jeitler, M.
Date Issued
February 7, 2025
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The CMS collaboration., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W. et al. Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in
the bbb¯ b¯ final state using large-area jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2025, 40 (2025).
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Abstract
A search is presented for the resonant production of a pair of standard model-like Higgs bosons using data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. The final state consists of two b quark-antiquark pairs. The search is conducted in the region of phase space where at least one of the pairs is highly Lorentz-boosted and is reconstructed as a single large-area jet. The other pair may be either similarly merged or resolved, the latter reconstructed using two b-tagged jets. The data are found to be consistent with standard model processes and are interpreted as 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the cross sections and the branching fractions of the spin-0 radion and the spin-2 bulk graviton that arise in warped extradimensional models. The limits set are in the range 9.74–0.29 fb and 4.94–0.19 fb for a narrow radion and a graviton, respectively, with masses between 1 and 3 TeV. For a radion and for a bulk graviton with widths 10% of their masses, the limits are in the range 12.5–0.35 fb and 8.23–0.23 fb, respectively, for the same masses. These limits result in the exclusion of a narrow-width graviton with a mass below 1.2 TeV, and of narrow and 10%-width radions with masses below 2.6, and 2.9 TeV, respectively.
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Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2025)040
