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Combination of Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at  √ s = 13     TeV
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Combination of Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √ s = 13     TeV

M Florencia Canelli, Benjamin Kilminster, Thea K Aarrestad, Danyyl Brzhechko, Lea Caminada, Annapaoloa de Cosa, Riccardo Del Burgo, Silvio Donato, Camilla Galloni, Tomas Hreus, …
Physical Review Letters, Vol.122(12), 121803
2019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121803
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121803View
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This Letter describes a search for Higgs boson pair production using the combined results from four final states: bbγγ, bbττ, bbbb, and bbVV, where V represents a W or Z boson. The search is performed using data collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment from LHC proton-proton collisions at √s=13  TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9  fb−1. Limits are set on the Higgs boson pair production cross section. A 95% confidence level observed (expected) upper limit on the nonresonant production cross section is set at 22.2 (12.8) times the standard model value. A search for narrow resonances decaying to Higgs boson pairs is also performed in the mass range 250–3000 GeV. No evidence for a signal is observed, and upper limits are set on the resonance production cross section.
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