| Title: | Search for exotic Higgs boson decays H → 𝒜𝒜 with 𝒜 → γγ in events with a semi-merged topology in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV |
| Authors: | Hayrapetyan, A Makarenko, V Tumasyan, A Adam, W Andrejkovic, JW Benato, L Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Giordano, C Hussain, PS Jeitler, M Demaria, N Sancar, O Orfanelli, S Kazana, M Palmer, C Pantaleo, F Guo, Q Soha, A Nürnberg, A Matchev, K Riggirello, M Sarkar, U Kim, J Pari, M Petrucciani, G Dordevic, M Pfeiffer, A Gallegos Maríñez, LG Akhter, T Hou, Q Pierini, M Pitt, M Sarkisovi, V Klyukhin, V Schonbeck, N Hadjiiska, R Von Cube, RF Kang, DY Budkouski, D Park, J Qin, X Qu, H Apresyan, A Tiwari, PC Dogra, S Rabady, D Sun, X Papageorgakis, C Alexe, CA Reimers, A Ribeiro Lopes, B Osterberg, K Hiltbrand, J Piotrzkowski, K Nayak, S Riti, F Cota Rodriguez, A Paramesvaran, S Tiras, E Zolkapli, Z Stepennov, A Kodolova, O Rosado, P Rovere, M Massironi, A Kovalskyi, D Sakulin, H Von Den Driesch, J Asenov, P Kim, MS Dash, G Salvatico, R de Barbaro, P Afanasiev, S Sanchez Cruz, S Clerbaux, B Schmidt, A Iaydjiev, P Adams, MR Hong, J Spiegel, L Paranjpe, MM Lin, Z McMaster, B Korenkov, V Scarfi, S Pearson, E Re, V Androsov, K Selvaggi, M Sharma, A Oh, BH Savva, K Blend, D Stenson, K Shchelina, K Silva, P Wassmer, M Seth, C Stoynev, S Sphicas, P Stahl Leiton, AG Bolshov, A Perez, CU Knolle, J Steen, A Ulmer, KA Summers, S Korsakov, I Bainbridge, R Hong, B Luongo, F Treille, D Azzurri, P Hwang, K Kim, J Bouhali, O Chang, P Wagner, SR Gomes De Souza, R Zhizhin, I León Coello, M Rumerio, P Shopova, M Tropea, P Vernazza, E Wolf, R Wanczyk, J Ranken, E Wuchterl, S Kozyrev, A Noonan, D Skovpen, K Lavezzo, L Reyes-Almanza, R Zarucki, M Bagliesi, G Usai, E Samudio, J Strait, J Zehetner, P Zejdl, P Zevi Della Porta, G Oreshkin, V Kalogeropoulos, A Saka, H Popova, E Rogan, C Raspereza, A Leontsinis, S Bevilacqua, T Kim, T Caminada, L Cavanaugh, R Sharma, A You, Z Cockerill, DJA Acharya, S Bianchini, L Gwak, P Menasce, D Sultanov, G Erdmann, W Cagnotta, A Sawant, S Hakala, J Rastorguev, D Horisberger, R Ingram, Q Zipper, N Datta, K Yi, R Kaestli, HC Moroni, L Kotlinski, D Lange, C Pinheiro, JP Shevelev, A Mota Amarilo, K Langenegger, U Basile, C Rejeb Sfar, H Boccali, T Sommerhalder, M Gutsche, O Noehte, L Lange, W Tavernier, S Forti, R Zeuner, WD Lee, D Eysermans, J Seo, J Lopez-Fernandez, R Mcginn, C Rohe, T Samalan, A Dimitrov, A Ceard, L Haza, G Crotte Ledesma, H Aarrestad, TK Cholak, S Novak, T Solanki, P Sanjrani, MS Kosmoglou Kioseoglou, PG Yohay, R De Castro, G Monteno, M Shooshtari, M Lee, K Onengut, G Paganoni, M De Bryas Dexmiers D’Archiacchiac, P Lee, KS Jiang, CH Neogi, O Demiragli, Z Radchenko, O Riccardi, C Bedoya, Cristina F Demina, R Gokbulut, G Turini, N Kravchenko, I Lidrych, J Erice, C Fangmeier, C Yu, I Fernandez Madrazo, C Carretero, Oliver M Aldá Júnior, WL Bossini, E Fulcher, J Manthos, N Golf, F Jeon, S Bauerdick, LAT Ozdemir, K Hummer, F O’Cain, J De Lentdecker, G Pesaresi, M Barman, S Paus, C Chen, Y Müller, Th De Cosa, A Lee, Y-J Savina, M Reed, I D’Amante, V Trocino, D Rudrabhatla, S Williams, A Lee, S Rohlf, J Kapoor, A Salyer, K 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| Keywords: | Beyond Standard Model;hadron-hadron scattering;Higgs physics;photon production |
| Issue Date: | 13-Jul-2026 |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature on behalf of SISSA |
| Citation: | Hayrapetyan, A. et al. for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration (2026) 'Search for exotic Higgs boson decays H → 𝒜𝒜 with 𝒜 → γγ in events with a semi-merged topology in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV', Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026(7), 119, pp. 1–44. doi: 10.1007/jhep07(2026)119. |
| Abstract: | A search for exotic Higgs boson decays H → 𝒜𝒜, with 𝒜 → γγ is presented, using events with a semi-merged topology. One of the hypothetical particles, 𝒜, is assumed to decay promptly into a semi-merged diphoton system reconstructed as a single photon-like object, while the other 𝒜 decays into two resolved photons. The search is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at √𝑠 = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb⁻¹. The data agree with the standard model background expectation. Upper limits are set on the product of the Higgs boson production cross section and the branching fraction, σ (pp → H) ℬ(H → 𝒜𝒜 → 4γ), which range from 0.264 to 0.005 pb at 95% confidence level, for 𝒜 masses in the range 1 < m<sub>𝒜</sub> < 15 GeV. These limits are the most stringent to date in the 1–5 GeV
m<sub>𝒜</sub> range. |
| Description: | Data Availability Statement:
Release and preservation of data used by the CMS Collaboration as the basis for publications is guided by the CMS data preservation, re-use and open access policy (https://opendata.cern.ch/record/415). Code Availability Statement:
The CMS core software is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw). |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/34007 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2026)119 |
| ISSN: | 1126-6708 |
| Appears in Collections: | Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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