Combination of searches for Higgs boson pairs in pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector
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2020
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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, D.C.
Abed Abud, A.
Abeling, K.
Abhayasinghe, D.K.
Abidi, S.H.
AbouZeid, O.S.
Abraham, N.L.
Abramowicz, H.
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Physics Letters B, 2020; 800:1-23
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G. Aad ... Paul Jackson ... Martin White ... Damir Duvnjak ... Jason Oliver,
... Andreas Petridis ... et al.
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This letter presents a combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production using up to 36.1fb−1of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy √s=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The combination is performed using six analyses searching for Higgs boson pairs decaying into the b ̄bb ̄b, b ̄bW+W−, b ̄bτ+τ−, W+W−W+W−, b ̄bγγand W+W−γγfinal states. Results are presented for non-resonant and resonant Higgs boson pair production modes. No statistically significant excess in data above the Standard Model predictions is found. The combined observed (expected) limit at 95% confidence level on the non-resonant Higgs boson pair production cross-section is 6.9(10) times the predicted Standard Model cross-section. Limits are also set on the ratio (κλ) of the Higgs boson self-coupling to its Standard Model value. This ratio is constrained at 95% confidence level in observation (expectation) to −5.0 <κλ<12.0(−5.8 <κλ<12.0). In addition, limits are set on the production of narrow scalar resonances and spin-2 Kaluza–Klein Randall–Sundrum gravitons. Exclusion regions are also provided in the parameter space of the habemus Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and the Electroweak Singlet Model.
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3