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Standard Model Higgs boson pair production in the $(b\bar{b})(b\bar{b})$ final state

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-08-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Measuring the Higgs boson couplings as precisely as possible is one of the major goals of the High Luminosity LHC. We show that the (bbˉ)(bbˉ)(b\bar{b})(b\bar{b}) final state in Higgs boson pair production can be exploited in the boosted regime to give constraints on the trilinear Higgs boson self-coupling. In these exclusive phase space regions, novel jet substructure techniques can be used to separate the signal from the large QCD and electroweak backgrounds. New developments on trigger and b-tagging strategies for the upcoming LHC runs are necessary in order to reconstruct the Higgs bosons in boosted final states, where the trilinear self-coupling sensitivity is reduced. We find that using our approach one can set a limit for λ1.2\lambda \leq 1.2 at 95%95 \% CL after 3000 fb13000~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. As the signal-to-background ratio is small we propose a data-driven side-band analysis to improve on the coupling measurement.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7139,
  title  = {Standard Model Higgs boson pair production in the $(b\bar{b})(b\bar{b})$ final state},
  author = {Danilo Enoque Ferreira de Lima and Andreas Papaefstathiou and Michael Spannowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7139},
  year   = {2014}
}

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19 pages, 9 figures, matches published JHEP version