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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
- Author(s): Aad, G
- Abbott, B
- Abbott, DC
- Abed Abud, A
- Abeling, K
- Abhayasinghe, DK
- Abidi, SH
- AbouZeid, OS
- Abraham, NL
- Abramowicz, H
- Abreu, H
- Abulaiti, Y
- Acharya, BS
- Achkar, B
- Adachi, S
- Adam, L
- Adam Bourdarios, C
- Adamczyk, L
- Adamek, L
- Adelman, J
- Adersberger, M
- Adiguzel, A
- Adorni, S
- Adye, T
- Affolder, AA
- Afik, Y
- Agapopoulou, C
- Agaras, MN
- Aggarwal, A
- Agheorghiesei, C
- Aguilar-Saavedra, JA
- Ahmadov, F
- Ahmed, WS
- Ai, X
- Aielli, G
- Akatsuka, S
- Åkesson, TPA
- Akilli, E
- Akimov, AV
- Al Khoury, K
- Alberghi, GL
- Albert, J
- Alconada Verzini, MJ
- Alderweireldt, S
- Aleksa, M
- Aleksandrov, IN
- Alexa, C
- Alexandre, D
- Alexopoulos, T
- Alfonsi, A
- Alfonsi, F
- Alhroob, M
- Ali, B
- Alimonti, G
- Alison, J
- Alkire, SP
- Allaire, C
- Allbrooke, BMM
- Allen, BW
- Allport, PP
- Aloisio, A
- Alonso, A
- Alonso, F
- Alpigiani, C
- Alshehri, AA
- Alvarez Estevez, M
- Álvarez Piqueras, D
- Alviggi, MG
- Amaral Coutinho, Y
- Ambler, A
- Ambroz, L
- Amelung, C
- Amidei, D
- Amor Dos Santos, SP
- Amoroso, S
- Amrouche, CS
- An, F
- Anastopoulos, C
- Andari, N
- Andeen, T
- Anders, CF
- Anders, JK
- Andreazza, A
- Andrei, V
- Anelli, CR
- Angelidakis, S
- Angerami, A
- Anisenkov, AV
- Annovi, A
- Antel, C
- Anthony, MT
- Antonelli, M
- Antrim, DJA
- Anulli, F
- Aoki, M
- Aparisi Pozo, JA
- Aperio Bella, L
- Arabidze, G
- Araque, JP
- Araujo Ferraz, V
- et al.
Published Web Location
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135145Abstract
© 2019 The Author(s) 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.