Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯W+W− decay mode in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

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A search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production with one Higgs boson decaying to two bottom quarks and the other to two W bosons are presented. The search is done using proton-proton collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. The final states considered include at least one leptonically decaying W boson. No evidence for the presence of a signal is observed and corresponding upper limits on the HH production cross section are derived. The limit on the inclusive cross section of the nonresonant HH production, assuming that the distributions of kinematic observables are as expected in the standard model (SM), is observed (expected) to be 14 (18) times the value predicted by the SM, at 95% confidence level. The limits on the cross section are also presented as functions of various Higgs boson coupling modifiers, and anomalous Higgs boson coupling scenarios. In addition, limits are set on the resonant HH production via spin-0 and spin-2 resonances within the mass range 250–900 GeV. © The Author(s) 2024.

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dc.contributor.authorHayrapetyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorTumasyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorAdam, W.
dc.contributor.authorAndrejkovic, J.W.
dc.contributor.authorBergauer, T.
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, S.
dc.contributor.authorDamanakis, K.
dc.contributor.authorDragicevic, M.
dc.contributor.authorEscalante Del Valle, A.
dc.contributor.authorHussain, P.S.
dc.contributor.authorJeitler, M.
dc.contributor.authorKrammer, N.
dc.contributor.authorLiko, D.
dc.contributor.authorMikulec, I.
dc.contributor.authorSchieck, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchöfbeck, R.
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, D.
dc.contributor.authorSonawane, M.
dc.contributor.authorTempl, S.
dc.contributor.authorWaltenberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorWulz, C.-E.
dc.contributor.authorDarwish, M.R.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, T.
dc.contributor.authorVan Mechelen, P.
dc.contributor.authorBols, E.S.
dc.contributor.authorD’Hondt, J.
dc.contributor.authorDansana, S.
dc.contributor.authorDe Moor, A.
dc.contributor.authorDelcourt, M.
dc.contributor.authorEl Faham, H.
dc.contributor.authorLowette, S.
dc.contributor.authorMakarenko, I.
dc.contributor.authorMüller, D.
dc.contributor.authorSahasransu, A.R.
dc.contributor.authorTavernier, S.
dc.contributor.authorTytgat, M.
dc.contributor.authorVan Putte, S.
dc.contributor.authorVannerom, D.
dc.contributor.authorClerbaux, B.
dc.contributor.authorDe Lentdecker, G.
dc.contributor.authorFavart, L.
dc.contributor.authorHohov, D.
dc.contributor.authorJaramillo, J.
dc.contributor.authorKhalilzadeh, A.
dc.contributor.authorLee, K.
dc.contributor.authorMahdavikhorrami, M.
dc.contributor.authorMalara, A.
dc.contributor.authorParedes, S.
dc.contributor.authorPétré, L.
dc.contributor.authorPostiau, N.
dc.date.accessioned2026-10-18T20:26:43.697218669Z
dc.date.available2026-10-18T20:26:43.697218669Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractA search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production with one Higgs boson decaying to two bottom quarks and the other to two W bosons are presented. The search is done using proton-proton collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. The final states considered include at least one leptonically decaying W boson. No evidence for the presence of a signal is observed and corresponding upper limits on the HH production cross section are derived. The limit on the inclusive cross section of the nonresonant HH production, assuming that the distributions of kinematic observables are as expected in the standard model (SM), is observed (expected) to be 14 (18) times the value predicted by the SM, at 95% confidence level. The limits on the cross section are also presented as functions of various Higgs boson coupling modifiers, and anomalous Higgs boson coupling scenarios. In addition, limits are set on the resonant HH production via spin-0 and spin-2 resonances within the mass range 250–900 GeV. © The Author(s) 2024.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1: We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centres for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: SC (Armenia), BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); ERC PRG, RVTT3 and MoER TK202 (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); SRNSF (Georgia); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LMTLT (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.A.).; Funding text 2: Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos. 675440, 724704, 752730, 758316, 765710, 824093, 101115353,101002207, and COST Action CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Science Committee, project no. 22rl-037 (Armenia); the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation \u00E0 la Recherche dans l\u2019Industrie et dans l\u2019Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the \u201CExcellence of Science \u2014 EOS\u201D \u2014 be.h project n. 30820817; the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010 and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (China); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, grant FR-22-985 (Georgia); the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under Germany\u2019s Excellence Strategy \u2014 EXC 2121 \u201CQuantum Universe\u201D 390833306, and under project number 400140256 \u2014 GRK2497; the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Project Number 2288 (Greece); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program \u2014 \u00DANKP, the NKFIH research grants K 124845, K 124850, K 128713, K 128786, K 129058, K 131991, K 133046, K 138136, K 143460, K 143477, 2020-2.2.1-ED-2021-00181, and TKP2021-NKTA-64 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; ICSC \u2014 National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by the EU Nex-Generation program (Italy); the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Education and Science, project no. 2022/WK/14, and the National Science Center, contracts Opus 2021/41/B/ST2/01369 and 2021/43/B/ST2/01552 (Poland); the Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, grant CEECIND/01334/2018 (Portugal); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, ERDF \u201Ca way of making Europe\u201D, and the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci\u00F3n Cient\u00EDfica y T\u00E9cnica de Excelencia Mar\u00EDa de Maeztu, grant MDM-2017-0765 and Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias (Spain); the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project, and the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation, grant B37G660013 (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (U.S.A.).
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/jhep07(2024)293
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479
dc.identifier.issue7
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105008507005
dc.identifier.startpage293
dc.identifier.urihttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/11720
dc.identifier.volume2024
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron Scattering
dc.subjectHiggs Physics
dc.titleSearch for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯W+W− decay mode in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication
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