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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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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Aad, G 
Abbott, B 
Abbott, DC 
Abed Abud, A 
Abeling, K 

Abstract

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.

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Keywords

hep-ex, hep-ex

Journal Title

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

0370-2693
1873-2445

Volume Title

801

Publisher

Elsevier
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000234/1)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (ST/N000234/1)