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Mad-Maximized Higgs Pair Analyses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-10-20 v3

Abstract

We study Higgs pair production with a subsequent decay to a pair of photons and a pair of bottoms at the LHC. We use the log-likelihood ratio to identify the kinematic regions which either allow us to separate the di-Higgs signal from backgrounds or to determine the Higgs self-coupling. We find that both regions are separate enough to ensure that details of the background modelling will not affect the determination of the self-coupling. Assuming dominant statistical uncertainties we determine the best precision with which the Higgs self- coupling can be probed in this channel. We finally comment on the same questions at a future 100 TeV collider.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07441,
  title  = {Mad-Maximized Higgs Pair Analyses},
  author = {Felix Kling and Tilman Plehn and Peter Schichtel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07441},
  year   = {2017}
}
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