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Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Search for a massive resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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 35.9fb−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.
0370-2693
244-269
Belyaev, A.
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
The CMS Collaboration
Belyaev, A.
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3

The CMS Collaboration (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 √s = 13 TeV. Physics Letters B, 781, 244-269. (doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.084).

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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 35.9fb−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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Accepted/In Press date: 29 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 April 2018
Published date: 10 June 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 419824
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419824
ISSN: 0370-2693
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ORCID for A. Belyaev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

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Date deposited: 23 Apr 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:55

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Author: A. Belyaev ORCID iD
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration

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