Search for Resonant Pair Production of Higgs Bosons in the bbZZ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Physical Review D 2020
Viesturs Veckalns

A search for the production of a narrow-width resonance decaying into a pair of Higgs bosons decaying into the bbZZ channel is presented. The analysis is based on data collected with the CMS detector during 2016, in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The final states considered are the ones where one of the Z bosons decays into a pair of muons or electrons, and the other Z boson decays to either a pair of quarks or a pair of neutrinos. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the production of narrow-width spin-0 or spin-2 particles decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons, in models with and without an extended Higgs sector. For a resonance mass range between 260 and 1000 GeV, limits on the production cross section times branching fraction of a spin-0 and spin-2 resonance range from 0.1 to 5.0 pb and 0.1 to 3.6 pb, respectively. These results set limits in parameter space in bulk Randall-Sundrum radion, Kaluza-Klein excitation of the graviton, and next-to-minimal two-Higgs doublet models (N2HDMs). For specific choices of parameters the N2HDM can be excluded in a mass range between 360 and 620 GeV for a resonance decaying to two Higgs bosons. This is the first search for Higgs boson resonant pair production in the bbZZ channel.


DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032003
Hyperlink
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032003

Veckalns, V., CERN international group of authors. Search for Resonant Pair Production of Higgs Bosons in the bbZZ Channel in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Physical Review D, 2020, Vol. 102, No. 3, Article number 032003. ISSN 2470-0010. e-ISSN 2470-0029. Available from: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032003

Publication language
English (en)
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