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Search for bottom quark associated production of the standard model Higgs boson in final states with leptons in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

Aram Hayrapetyan , A. Tumasyan , W. Adam , Janik Walter Andrejkovic , T. Bergauer , S. Chatterjee , K. Damanakis , M. Dragicevic , Priya Sajid Hussain , M. Jeitler ,

Physics Letters B

Abstract

This Letter presents the first search for bottom quark associated production of the standard model Higgs boson, in final states with leptons. Higgs boson decays to pairs of tau leptons and pairs of leptonically decaying W bosons are considered. The search is performed using data collected from 2016 to 2018 by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb${-1}$. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are placed on the signal strength for Higgs boson production in association with bottom quarks; the observed (expected) upper limit is 3.7 (6.1) times the standard model prediction.

Keywords

Particle physics Physics Higgs boson Lepton Standard Model (mathematical formulation) Top quark Boson Quark Bottom quark Nuclear physics Luminosity Production (economics) Electron

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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies ·Nuclear and High Energy Physics ·Physical Sciences
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research ·Nuclear and High Energy Physics ·Physical Sciences
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