Search for Higgs boson pair production in association with a vector boson in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration
Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 519, 2023.

Abstract (data abstract)
CERN-LHC. A search for Higgs boson pair ($hh$) production in association with a vector boson ($W\; {\textrm or}\; Z$) is presented, using 139 $fb^{-1}$ of proton--proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13\,\text{TeV}$ recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The search is performed in final states in which the vector boson decays leptonically ($W\to\ell\nu,\, Z\to\ell\ell,\nu\nu$ with $\ell=e, \mu$) and the Higgs bosons each decay into a pair of $b$-quarks. It targets $Vhh$ signals from both non-resonant $hh$ production, present in the Standard Model (SM), and resonant $hh$ production, as predicted in some SM extensions. For the resonant search, upper limits on the production cross-sections are derived for two specific models: one is the production of a vector boson along with a neutral heavy scalar resonance $H$, in the mass range 260--1000 GeV, that decays into $hh$, and the other is the production of a heavier neutral pseudoscalar resonance $A$ that decays into a $Z$ boson and $H$ boson, where the $A$ boson mass is 360--800 GeV and the $H$ boson mass is 260--400 GeV. Constraints are also derived in the parameter space of two-Higgs-doublet models.

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 11a

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a neutral...

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    Data from Figure 3b

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a neutral...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 11b

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a neutral...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 12a

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 13a

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 14a

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Data from Figure 3a

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 13b

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Acceptance times efficiency as a function of pseudoscalar resonant mass for each event selection step in the search for a...

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    Data from Figure 9a

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a W...

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    Data from Figure 9b

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a Z...

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    Data from Figure 10a

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    Expected 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of a heavy narrow-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z boson and...

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    Data from Figure 10b

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    Observed 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of a heavy narrow-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z boson and...

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    Data from Figure 10c

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    Expected 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of a heavy large-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z boson and...

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    Data from Figure 10d

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    Observed 95% CL upper limits on the cross-section of a heavy large-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z boson and...

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    Data from Figure 8b

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for 315 GeV resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 7a

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for 400 GeV resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 6a

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for 550 GeV resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 7b

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for 400 GeV resonant $H\to 4b$ production in association with a...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 6b

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for a 790 GeV narrow-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z...

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    Data from Figure 8c

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for a 420 GeV large-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z...

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    Data from Auxiliary Figure 7c

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for a 700 GeV large-width pseudoscalar resonance decaying to a Z...

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    Data from Figure 8a

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    Data and post-fit signal and background from S+B fit for SM VHH production, with each Higgs boson decaying to $2b$.

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