Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final state with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

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A search for the nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs (HH ) via gluon-gluon and vector boson fusion processes in final states with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb−1. Events in which at least one tau lepton decays hadronically are considered and multiple machine learning techniques are used to identify and extract the signal. The data are found to be consistent, within uncertainties, with the standard model (SM) predictions. Upper limits on the HH production cross section are set to constrain the parameter space for anomalous Higgs boson couplings. The observed (expected) upper limit at 95% confidence level corresponds to 3.3 (5.2) times the SM prediction for the inclusive HH cross section and to 124 (154) times the SM prediction for the vector boson fusion HH cross section. At 95% confidence level, the Higgs field self-coupling is constrained to be within −1.7 and 8.7 times the SM expectation, and the coupling of two Higgs bosons to two vector bosons is constrained to be within −0.4 and 2.6 times the SM expectation. © 2022 The Author(s)

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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.authorDel Valle, A. Escalante
dc.contributor.authorHussain, P.S.
dc.contributor.authorJeitler, M.
dc.contributor.authorKrammer, N.
dc.contributor.authorLechner, L.
dc.contributor.authorLiko, D.
dc.contributor.authorMikulec, I.
dc.contributor.authorPaulitsch, P.
dc.contributor.authorPitters, F.M.
dc.contributor.authorSchieck, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchöfbeck, R.
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, D.
dc.contributor.authorTempl, S.
dc.contributor.authorWaltenberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorWulz, C.-E.
dc.contributor.authorDarwish, M.R.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, T.
dc.contributor.authorKello, T.
dc.contributor.authorRejeb Sfar, H.
dc.contributor.authorVan Mechelen, P.
dc.contributor.authorBols, E.S.
dc.contributor.authorD’Hondt, J.
dc.contributor.authorDe Moor, A.
dc.contributor.authorDelcourt, M.
dc.contributor.authorEl Faham, H.
dc.contributor.authorLowette, S.
dc.contributor.authorMoortgat, S.
dc.contributor.authorMorton, A.
dc.contributor.authorMüller, D.
dc.contributor.authorSahasransu, A.R.
dc.contributor.authorTavernier, S.
dc.contributor.authorVan Doninck, W.
dc.contributor.authorVannerom, D.
dc.contributor.authorClerbaux, B.
dc.contributor.authorDe Lentdecker, G.
dc.contributor.authorFavart, L.
dc.contributor.authorJaramillo, J.
dc.contributor.authorLee, K.
dc.contributor.authorMahdavikhorrami, M.
dc.contributor.authorMakarenko, I.
dc.contributor.authorMalara, A.
dc.contributor.authorParedes, S.
dc.contributor.authorPétré, L.
dc.date.accessioned2026-10-18T20:27:19.588203933Z
dc.date.available2026-10-18T20:27:19.588203933Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractA search for the nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs (HH ) via gluon-gluon and vector boson fusion processes in final states with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb−1. Events in which at least one tau lepton decays hadronically are considered and multiple machine learning techniques are used to identify and extract the signal. The data are found to be consistent, within uncertainties, with the standard model (SM) predictions. Upper limits on the HH production cross section are set to constrain the parameter space for anomalous Higgs boson couplings. The observed (expected) upper limit at 95% confidence level corresponds to 3.3 (5.2) times the SM prediction for the inclusive HH cross section and to 124 (154) times the SM prediction for the vector boson fusion HH cross section. At 95% confidence level, the Higgs field self-coupling is constrained to be within −1.7 and 8.7 times the SM expectation, and the coupling of two Higgs bosons to two vector bosons is constrained to be within −0.4 and 2.6 times the SM expectation. © 2022 The Author(s)
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1: Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos. 675440 , 724704 , 752730, 758316, 765710, 824093, 884104, and COST Action CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation ; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation \u00E0 la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the \u201C Excellence of Science \u2013 EOS \u201D \u2013 be.h project n. 30820817 ; the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission , No. Z191100007219010 ; The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Project Number 2288 (Greece); the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under Germany's Excellence Strategy \u2013 EXC 2121 \u201CQuantum Universe\u201D \u2013 390833306 , and under project number 400140256 - GRK2497 ; the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , the New National Excellence Program - \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; 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 B05F650021 (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation ; the Nvidia Corporation ; the SuperMicro Corporation ; the Welch Foundation , contract C-1845 ; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA).; Funding text 2: 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 centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers 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: 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); MoER , ERC PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland , MEC , and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); 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); LAS (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 (USA).
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137531
dc.identifier.issn0370-2693
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85162773963
dc.identifier.startpage137531
dc.identifier.urihttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/12424
dc.identifier.volume842
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.relation.ispartofPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectBbtautau
dc.subjectCMS
dc.subjectHH
dc.subjectHiggs
dc.subjectSelf-coupling
dc.subjectVBF
dc.titleSearch for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in final state with two bottom quarks and two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication
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