Search for Bottom Quark Associated Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Final States with Leptons in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Physics Letters B 2025
Kārlis Dreimanis, Antra Gaile, Conrado Munoz Diaz, Dace Osīte, Guntis Pikurs, Andris Potrebko, Markus Seidel, Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Kontos, CMS Collaboration

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 138fb−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
Bottom | CMS | Higgs | Search | tau
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139173
Hyperlink
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324007317

The CMS Collaboration, Dreimanis, K., Gaile, A., Munoz Diaz, C., Osīte, D., Pikurs, G., Potrebko, A., Seidel, M., Sidiropoulos Kontos, D. Search for Bottom Quark Associated Production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Final States with Leptons in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2025, Vol. 860, Article number 139173. ISSN 0370-2693. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139173

Publication language
English (en)