Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbℓνℓν final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=13 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135145

Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbℓνℓν final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=13 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

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A search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production, as predicted by the Standard Model, is presented, where one of the Higgs bosons decays via the H→bb channel and the other via one of the H→WW^⁎/ZZ^⁎/ττ channels. The analysis selection requires events to have at least two b-tagged jets and exactly two leptons (electrons or muons) with opposite electric charge in the final state. Candidate events consistent with Higgs boson pair production are selected using a multi-class neural network discriminant. The analysis uses 139 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. An observed (expected) upper limit of 1.2 (0.9_−0.3 ^+0.4) pb is set on the non-resonant Higgs boson pair production cross-section at 95% confidence level, which is equivalent to 40 (29₋₉ ⁺¹⁴) times the value predicted in the Standard Model.

Original language	English
Article number	135145
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	801
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135145
Publication status	Published - 10 Feb 2020

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Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbℓνℓν final state with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=13 TeV

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