Search for resonant and non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the b¯bτ +τ − decay channel using 13 TeV pp collision data from the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Publications, T.M. Carter, A. Hasib, M.P. Heath, S. Palazzo, E.P. Takeva, N. Themistokleous, E.M. Villhauer, E. Zaid

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Abstract / Description of output

A search for Higgs boson pair production in events with two b-jets and two
τ -leptons is presented, using a proton–proton collision dataset with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected at √s = 13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Higgs boson pairs produced non-resonantly or in the decay of a narrow scalar resonance in the mass range from 251 to 1600 GeV are targeted. Events in which at least one τ -lepton decays hadronically are considered, and multivariate discriminants are used to reject the backgrounds. No significant excess of events above the expected background is observed
in the non-resonant search. The largest excess in the resonant search is observed at a resonance mass of 1 TeV, with a local (global) significance of 3.1σ (2.0σ). Observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits are set on the non-resonant Higgs boson pair-production cross-section at 4.7 (3.9) times the Standard Model prediction, assuming Standard Model kinematics, and on the resonant Higgs boson pair-production cross-section at between 21and 900 fb (12 and 840 fb), depending on the mass of the narrow scalar resonance.
Original languageEnglish
Article number40
Pages (from-to)1-61
Number of pages61
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume2023
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Higgs Physics
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Proton-Proton Scattering

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