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Search for Exotic Higgs Boson Decays H→AA→4γ with Events Containing Two Merged Diphotons in Proton-Proton Collisions at s=13TeV

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Abstract

We present the first direct search for exotic Higgs boson decays 𝐻→𝒜𝒜, 𝒜→𝛾⁢𝛾 in events with two photonlike objects. The hypothetical particle 𝒜 is a low-mass spin-0 particle decaying promptly to a merged diphoton reconstructed as a single photonlike object. We analyze the data collected by the CMS experiment at √𝑠=13  TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136  fb−1. No excess above the estimated background is found. We set upper limits on the branching fraction ℬ⁡(𝐻→𝒜⁢𝒜→4⁢𝛾) of (0.9–3.3)×10−3 at 95% confidence level for masses of 𝒜 in the range 0.1–1.2 GeV.

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© 2023 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s)

Acknowledgement

We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator
departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and
thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and
at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success
of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge
the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide
LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so
effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our
analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for
the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS
detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure
provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF
and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq,
CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC
(China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF
(Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER,
ERC PUT, and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland,
MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France);
BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece);
NKFIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran);
SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of
Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM
(Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP,
and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE
(New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MES and NSC (Poland);
FCT (Portugal); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI
(Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies
(Switzerland); MST (Taipei); MHESI and NSTDA
(Thailand); TUBITAK and TENMAK (Turkey); NASU
(Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (U.S.).

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References
Journal Article: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.052002 (DOI)

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2023-01-19
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