Butterworth, Jonathan; ATLAS Collaboration; (2022) Search for Higgs boson pair production in the two bottom quarks plus two photons final state in PP collisions √s=13 TeV at with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology , 106 (5) , Article 052001. 10.1103/physrevd.106.052001.

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Searches are performed for nonresonant and resonant di-Higgs boson production in the bb¯ γγ final state. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a centerof-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the expected background is found and upper limits on the di-Higgs boson production cross sections are set. A 95% confidence-level upper limit of 4.2 times the cross section predicted by the Standard Model is set on pp → HH nonresonant production, where the expected limit is 5.7 times the Standard Model predicted value. The expected constraints are obtained for a background hypothesis excluding pp → HH production. The observed (expected) constraints on the Higgs boson trilinear coupling modifier κλ are determined to be ½−1.5; 6.7 ð½−2.4; 7.7Þ at 95% confidence level, where the expected constraints on κλ are obtained excluding pp → HH production from the background hypothesis. For resonant production of a new hypothetical scalar particle X (X → HH → bb¯ γγ), limits on the cross section for pp → X → HH are presented in the narrow-width approximation as a function of mX in the range 251 GeV ≤ mX ≤ 1000 GeV. The observed (expected) limits on the cross section for pp → X → HH range from 640 fb to 44 fb (391 fb to 46 fb) over the considered mass range.

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