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

CMS Collaboration

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

11 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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, κ_{2V}, excluding κ_{2V}=0 for the first time, with a significance of 6.3 standard deviations when other H couplings are fixed to their standard model values.

Original languageEnglish
Article number041803
Pages (from-to)41803
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume131
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this