Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $\gamma\gamma\mathrm{b\overline{b}}$ final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
(2019) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. B788, p. 7-36 (2019)
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- A search is presented for the production of a pair of Higgs bosons, where one decays into two photons and the other one into a bottom quark-antiquark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV marc:recorded in 2016 by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The results are in agreement with standard model (SM) predictions. In a search for resonant production, upper limits are set on the cross section for new spin-0 or spin-2 particles. For the SM-like nonresonant production hypothesis, the data exclude a product of cross section and branching fraction larger than 2.0 fb at 95% confidence level (CL), corresponding to about 24 times the SM prediction. Values of the effective Higgs boson self-coupling $\kappa_\lambda$ are constrained to be within the range $-$11 < $\kappa_\lambda$ < 17 at 95% CL, assuming all other Higgs boson couplings are at their SM value. These constraints are the most restrictive to date.
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Bakhshiansohi, H., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Caputo, C., Caudron, A., David, P., De Visscher, S., Delaere, C., Delcourt, M., François, B., Giammanco, A., Komm, M., Krintiras, G., Lemaitre, V., Magitteri, A., Mertens, A., Musich, M., Piotrzkowski, K., et al. (2019). Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $\gamma\gamma\mathrm{b\overline{b}}$ final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, B788, 7-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.056 (Original work published 2019)