Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Four b Quark Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV
Affiliations
- 1 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2 Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria.
- 3 Institute for Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus.
- 4 Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- 5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium.
- 6 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 7 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 8 Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- 9 Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 10 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 11 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 12 Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 13 University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 14 Beihang University, Beijing, China.
- 15 Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- 16 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
- 17 State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- 18 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
- 19 Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- 20 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang, China.
- 21 Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
- 22 Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
- 23 University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia.
- 24 University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia.
- 25 Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
- 26 University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 27 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 28 Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
- 29 Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
- 30 Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt.
- 31 Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt.
- 32 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia.
- 33 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- 34 Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland.
- 35 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.
- 36 IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 37 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
- 38 Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France.
- 39 Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), Villeurbanne, France.
- 40 Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 41 RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany.
- 42 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany.
- 43 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany.
- 44 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
- 45 University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- 46 Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 47 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece.
- 48 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 49 National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 50 University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece.
- 51 MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
- 52 Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
- 53 Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 54 Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 55 Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary.
- 56 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
- 57 National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 58 Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
- 59 University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
- 60 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India.
- 61 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India.
- 62 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
- 63 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India.
- 64 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India.
- 65 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.
- 66 Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
- 67 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
- 68 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- 69 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 70 Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 71 Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 72 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 73 Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 74 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 75 Università di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 76 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 77 Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 78 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 79 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 80 Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 81 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 82 Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 83 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 84 Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Napoli, Italy.
- 85 Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
- 86 Università G. Marconi, Roma, Italy.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 88 Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 89 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 90 Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 91 INFN Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
- 92 Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
- 93 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 94 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 95 Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 96 Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
- 97 INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 98 Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 99 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 100 Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 101 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
- 102 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 103 Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 104 Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
- 105 Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea.
- 106 Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
- 107 Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- 108 Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
- 109 Sejong University, Seoul, Korea.
- 110 Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- 111 University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
- 112 Yonsei University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea.
- 113 Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
- 114 College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait, Dasman, Kuwait.
- 115 Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia.
- 116 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 117 National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 118 Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico.
- 119 Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 120 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 121 Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
- 122 University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro.
- 123 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 124 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 125 National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 126 AGH University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Krakow, Poland.
- 127 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland.
- 128 Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
- 129 Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 130 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 131 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (St. Petersburg), Russia.
- 132 Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia.
- 133 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
- 134 National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute', Moscow, Russia.
- 135 National Research Nuclear University 'Moscow Engineering Physics Institute' (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia.
- 136 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
- 137 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 138 Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 139 Institute for High Energy Physics of National Research Centre 'Kurchatov Institute', Protvino, Russia.
- 140 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 141 Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 142 University of Belgrade: Faculty of Physics and VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 143 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
- 144 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 145 Universidad de Oviedo, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Oviedo, Spain.
- 146 Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
- 147 University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- 148 University of Ruhuna, Department of Physics, Matara, Sri Lanka.
- 149 CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 150 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
- 151 ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland.
- 152 Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 153 National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
- 154 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan.
- 155 Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Bangkok, Thailand.
- 156 Çukurova University, Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Adana, Turkey.
- 157 Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, Ankara, Turkey.
- 158 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 159 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 160 Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 161 Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 162 National Scientific Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 163 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
- 164 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 165 Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
- 166 Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
- 167 Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA.
- 168 Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.
- 169 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
- 170 Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 171 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
- 172 University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
- 173 University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- 174 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
- 175 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
- 176 University of California, Santa Barbara-Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- 177 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
- 178 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 179 University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- 180 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
- 181 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA.
- 182 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
- 183 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
- 184 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- 185 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 186 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
- 187 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- 188 The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
- 189 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
- 190 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA.
- 191 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
- 192 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- 193 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- 194 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
- 195 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
- 196 Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 197 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- 198 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
- 199 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- 200 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- 201 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA.
- 202 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
- 203 Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, USA.
- 204 Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
- 205 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
- 206 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
- 207 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- 208 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
- 209 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
- 210 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- 211 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
- 212 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- 213 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Wisconsin, USA.
- PMID: 36053704
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081802
Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Four b Quark Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2 Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria.
- 3 Institute for Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus.
- 4 Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
- 5 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium.
- 6 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- 7 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 8 Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- 9 Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 10 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 11 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 12 Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 13 University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 14 Beihang University, Beijing, China.
- 15 Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- 16 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China.
- 17 State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- 18 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
- 19 Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- 20 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang, China.
- 21 Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
- 22 Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
- 23 University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia.
- 24 University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia.
- 25 Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
- 26 University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
- 27 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 28 Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
- 29 Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
- 30 Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt.
- 31 Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt.
- 32 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia.
- 33 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
- 34 Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland.
- 35 Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.
- 36 IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 37 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.
- 38 Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France.
- 39 Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), Villeurbanne, France.
- 40 Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 41 RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany.
- 42 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany.
- 43 RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany.
- 44 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
- 45 University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- 46 Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 47 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece.
- 48 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 49 National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 50 University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece.
- 51 MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
- 52 Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
- 53 Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 54 Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
- 55 Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary.
- 56 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
- 57 National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India.
- 58 Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
- 59 University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
- 60 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India.
- 61 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India.
- 62 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
- 63 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India.
- 64 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India.
- 65 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.
- 66 Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
- 67 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
- 68 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- 69 INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 70 Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 71 Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
- 72 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 73 Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 74 INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 75 Università di Catania, Catania, Italy.
- 76 INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 77 Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
- 78 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 79 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 80 Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 81 INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 82 Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
- 83 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 84 Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Napoli, Italy.
- 85 Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
- 86 Università G. Marconi, Roma, Italy.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 88 Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
- 89 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 90 Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 91 INFN Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
- 92 Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
- 93 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 94 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 95 Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 96 Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
- 97 INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 98 Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
- 99 INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 100 Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 101 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
- 102 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 103 Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
- 104 Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
- 105 Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea.
- 106 Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
- 107 Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
- 108 Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
- 109 Sejong University, Seoul, Korea.
- 110 Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- 111 University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
- 112 Yonsei University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea.
- 113 Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.
- 114 College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait, Dasman, Kuwait.
- 115 Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia.
- 116 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 117 National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- 118 Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico.
- 119 Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 120 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 121 Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
- 122 University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro.
- 123 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 124 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 125 National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 126 AGH University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Krakow, Poland.
- 127 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland.
- 128 Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
- 129 Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 130 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
- 131 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (St. Petersburg), Russia.
- 132 Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia.
- 133 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
- 134 National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute', Moscow, Russia.
- 135 National Research Nuclear University 'Moscow Engineering Physics Institute' (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia.
- 136 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia.
- 137 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 138 Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 139 Institute for High Energy Physics of National Research Centre 'Kurchatov Institute', Protvino, Russia.
- 140 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 141 Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
- 142 University of Belgrade: Faculty of Physics and VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 143 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain.
- 144 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 145 Universidad de Oviedo, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Oviedo, Spain.
- 146 Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
- 147 University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- 148 University of Ruhuna, Department of Physics, Matara, Sri Lanka.
- 149 CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 150 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
- 151 ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland.
- 152 Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 153 National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
- 154 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan.
- 155 Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Bangkok, Thailand.
- 156 Çukurova University, Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Adana, Turkey.
- 157 Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, Ankara, Turkey.
- 158 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 159 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 160 Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 161 Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 162 National Scientific Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine.
- 163 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
- 164 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 165 Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
- 166 Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom.
- 167 Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA.
- 168 Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.
- 169 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
- 170 Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 171 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
- 172 University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
- 173 University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- 174 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
- 175 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
- 176 University of California, Santa Barbara-Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- 177 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
- 178 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 179 University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
- 180 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
- 181 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA.
- 182 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
- 183 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
- 184 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- 185 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 186 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
- 187 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- 188 The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
- 189 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
- 190 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA.
- 191 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
- 192 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- 193 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- 194 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
- 195 State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
- 196 Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 197 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- 198 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
- 199 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- 200 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- 201 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA.
- 202 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
- 203 Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, USA.
- 204 Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
- 205 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
- 206 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
- 207 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
- 208 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
- 209 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
- 210 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- 211 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
- 212 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- 213 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Wisconsin, USA.
- PMID: 36053704
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081802
Abstract
A search for pairs of Higgs bosons produced via gluon and vector boson fusion is presented, focusing on the four b quark final state. The data sample consists of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb^{-1}. No deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed. A 95% confidence level upper limit on the Higgs boson pair production cross section is observed at 3.9 times the standard model prediction for an expected value of 7.8. Constraints are also set on the modifiers of the Higgs field self-coupling, κ_{λ}, and of the coupling of two Higgs bosons to two vector bosons, κ_{2 V}. The observed (expected) allowed intervals at the 95% confidence level are -2.3<κ_{λ}<9.4 (-5.0<κ_{λ}<12.0) and -0.1<κ_{2 V}<2.2 (-0.4<κ_{2 V}<2.5). These are the most stringent observed constraints to date on the HH production cross section and on the κ_{2 V } coupling.
