Combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV
(2019) Physical Review Letters — Vol. 122, p. 121803 (2019)
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- This Letter describes a search for Higgs boson pair production using the combined results from four final states: bb$\gamma\gamma$, bb$\tau\tau$, bbbb, and bbVV, where V represents a W or Z boson. The search is performed using data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment from LHC proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. Limits are set on the Higgs boson pair production cross section. A 95% confidence level observed (expected) upper limit on the nonresonant production cross section is set at 22.2 (12.8) times the standard model value. A search for narrow resonances decaying to Higgs boson pairs is also performed in the mass range 250-3000 GeV. No evidence for a signal is observed, and upper limits are set on the resonance production cross section.
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Bakhshiansohi, H., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caputo, C., David, P., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., Giammanco, A., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Piotrzkowski, K., Saggio, A., Vidal Marono, M., Wertz, S., Zobec, J., CMS Collaboration, & et al. (2019). Combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 122, 121803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121803 (Original work published 2019)