Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair at $ \sqrt{s} $= 13 TeV
(2022) Journal of High Energy Physics — Vol. 05 (2022)
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- A search for new heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons (HH) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented. Data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{−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 $ \mathrm{HH}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}{\mathrm{WW}}^{\ast}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\ell v\mathrm{q}{\overline{\mathrm{q}}}^{\prime } $ and the dilepton decay channels $ \mathrm{HH}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}{\mathrm{WW}}^{\ast}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\ell v\ell v $ and $ \mathrm{HH}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\uptau \uptau \to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\ell vv\ell vv $ 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 $ \mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $ 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.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
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Benecke, A., Bethani, A., Bruno, G., Bury, F., Caputo, C., David, P., Delaere, C., Donertas, I. S., Giammanco, A., Jaffel, K., Jain, S., Jain, S., Lemaitre, V., Mondal, K., Prisciandaro, J., Taliercio, A., Teklishyn, M., Tran, T. T., Vischia, P., et al. (2022). Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair at $ \sqrt{s} $= 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 05. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2022)005 (Original work published 2022)