Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into two lighter Higgs bosons in the ττbb final state at 13 TeV
Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into two lighter Higgs bosons in the ττbb final state at 13 TeV
A search for a heavy Higgs boson H decaying into the observed Higgs boson h with a mass of 125 GeV and another Higgs boson hS is presented. The h and hS bosons are required to decay into a pair of tau leptons and a pair of b quarks, respectively. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. Mass ranges of 240–3000 GeV for mH and 60–2800 GeV for mhS are explored in the search. No signal has been observed. Model independent 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process are set with a sensitivity ranging from 125 fb (for mH = 240 GeV) to 2.7 fb (for mH = 1000 GeV). These limits are compared to maximally allowed products of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics
Adam, Wolfgang
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Clercq, Jarne De
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Delcourt, Martin
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Wang, Yi
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Wang, Jin
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Chen, Cheng
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Kasem, A.
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Aggleton, Robin
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Kumar, Deepak
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Kim, Jae Sung
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Kim, S.
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Lee, Jason Sang Hun
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Lee, Y
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Yang, S
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Belyaev, Alexander
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November 2021
Adam, Wolfgang
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Andrejkovic, Janik Walter
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Bergauer, Thomas
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Chatterjee, Suman
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Dragicevic, Marko
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Valle, Alberto Escalante del
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Fruehwirth, Rudolf
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Jeitler, Manfred
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Krammer, Natascha
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Lechner, Lukas
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Paulitsch, Peter
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Pitters, Florian Michael
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Templ, Sebastian
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Waltenberger, Wolfgang
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