Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

Bakhshiansohi, Hamed;Bondu, Olivier;Brochet, Sébastien;Bruno, Giacomo;CMS Collaboration;et.al.
(2018) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. B781, p. 244-269 (2018)

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  • Bakhshiansohi, HamedUCLouvain
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  • Bondu, OlivierUCLouvain
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  • Brochet, SébastienUCLouvain
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  • Caputo, ClaudioUCLouvain
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  • Caudron, AdrienUCLouvain
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  • David, PieterUCLouvain
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  • De Visscher, SimonUCLouvain
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  • Delcourt, MartinUCLouvain
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  • Komm, MatthiasUCLouvain
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  • Krintiras, GeorgiosUCLouvain
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  • Magitteri, AlessioUCLouvain
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  • Mertens, AlexandreUCLouvain
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  • Musich, MarcoUCLouvain
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  • Piotrzkowski, KrzysztofUCLouvain
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  • Saggio, AlessiaUCLouvain
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  • Vidal Marono, MiguelUCLouvain
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  • Wertz, SébastienUCLouvain
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  • Zobec, JozeUCLouvain
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Abstract
A search for a massive resonance decaying into a pair of standard model Higgs bosons, in a final state consisting of two b quark-antiquark pairs, is performed. A data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is used, collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The Higgs bosons are highly Lorentz-boosted and are each reconstructed as a single large-area jet. The signal is characterized by a peak in the dijet invariant mass distribution, above a background from the standard model multijet production. The observations are consistent with the background expectations, and are interpreted as upper limits on the products of the $s$-channel production cross sections and branching fractions of narrow bulk gravitons and radions in warped extra-dimensional models. The limits range from 126 to 1.4 fb at 95% confidence level for resonances with masses between 750 and 3000 GeV, and are the most stringent to date, over the explored mass range.
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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. (2018). Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, B781, 244-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.084 (Original work published 2018)