Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into two lighter Higgs bosons in the ττbb final state at 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics, vol.2021, no.11, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 2021 Issue: 11
- Publication Date: 2021
- Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep11(2021)057
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Higgs physics
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No
Abstract
A search for a heavy Higgs boson H decaying into the observed Higgs boson h with a mass of 125 GeV and another Higgs boson hS is presented. The h and hS bosons are required to decay into a pair of tau leptons and a pair of b quarks, respectively. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. Mass ranges of 240–3000 GeV for mH and 60–2800 GeV for mhS are explored in the search. No signal has been observed. Model independent 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process are set with a sensitivity ranging from 125 fb (for mH = 240 GeV) to 2.7 fb (for mH = 1000 GeV). These limits are compared to maximally allowed products of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]