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Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons in the bbZZ channel in proton-proton collisions at s =13 TeV

par Sirunyan, A.M.;Beghin, Diego ;Bilin, Bugra ;Clerbaux, Barbara ;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Delannoy, Hugo ;Dorney, Brian ;Favart, Laurent ;Grebenyuk, Anastasia ;Kalsi, Amandeep Kaur ;Makarenko, Inna ;Moureaux, Louis ;Pétré, Laurent ;Popov, Andrey ;Postiau, Nicolas ;Starling, Elizabeth Rose ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Vannerom, David ;Wezenbeek, Liam ;Malara, Andrea ; [et al.]
Référence Physical Review D, 102, 3, 032003
Publication Publié, 2020-08-01

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A search for the production of a narrow-width resonance decaying into a pair of Higgs bosons decaying into the bbZZ channel is presented. The analysis is based on data collected with the CMS detector during 2016, in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1. The final states considered are the ones where one of the Z bosons decays into a pair of muons or electrons, and the other Z boson decays to either a pair of quarks or a pair of neutrinos. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are placed on the production of narrow-width spin-0 or spin-2 particles decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons, in models with and without an extended Higgs sector. For a resonance mass range between 260 and 1000 GeV, limits on the production cross section times branching fraction of a spin-0 and spin-2 resonance range from 0.1 to 5.0 pb and 0.1 to 3.6 pb, respectively. These results set limits in parameter space in bulk Randall-Sundrum radion, Kaluza-Klein excitation of the graviton, and next-to-minimal two-Higgs doublet models (N2HDMs). For specific choices of parameters the N2HDM can be excluded in a mass range between 360 and 620 GeV for a resonance decaying to two Higgs bosons. This is the first search for Higgs boson resonant pair production in the bbZZ channel.