Naslov
Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair at √s = 13 TeV

Autori
Tumasyan, Armen ; ... ; Antunović, Željko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Giljanović, Duje ; Godinović, Nikola ; Kovač, Marko ; Lelas, Damir ; Majumder, Devdatta ; Puljak, Ivica ; Roguljić, Matej ; Starodumov, Andrey ; Đurić, Senka ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Šćulac, Toni ; ... ; Vetens, Wren

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
The Journal of high energy physics (1126-6708) 5 (2022); 005, 61

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Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Beyond Standard Model ; Hadron-Hadron scattering ; Higgs physics ; particle and resonance production ; hierarchy ; extension ; invariant ; mass ; transverse momentum ; mass spectrum ; black hole ; vector boson ; leptonic decay ; leptoquark ; effective field theory ; Higgs

Sažetak
A search for new heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons (HH) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. Data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. Resonances with a mass between 0.8 and 4.5 TeV are considered using events in which one Higgs boson decays into a bottom quark pair and the other into final states with either one or two charged leptons. Specifically, the single-lepton decay channel HH → bb¯WW∗ → bb¯ℓνqq¯′ and the dilepton decay channels HH → bb¯WW∗ → bb¯ℓνℓν and HH → bb¯ττ → bb¯ℓννℓνν are examined, where ℓ in the final state corresponds to an electron or muon. The signal is extracted using a two-dimensional maximum likelihood fit of the H → bb¯ jet mass and HH invariant mass distributions. No significant excess above the standard model expectation is observed in data. Model-independent exclusion limits are placed on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for narrow spin-0 and spin-2 massive bosons decaying to HH. The results are also interpreted in the context of radion and bulk graviton production in models with a warped extra spatial dimension. The results provide the most stringent limits to date for X → HH signatures with final-state leptons and at some masses provide the most sensitive limits of all X → HH searches.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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Fizika

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