Searching for resonant $\textrm{HH}$ production in the $\mathrm{b\overline{b}q\overline{q}'}\ell\nu$ final state at CMS

Abstract

New, massive bosons could be found with the LHC. Theories with warped extra dimensions and supersymmetry predict the existence of such resonances, which for some model parameters, have a significant branching fraction to two Higgs bosons. A search for such particles in the $\mathrm{X}\rightarrow\mathrm{HH}\rightarrow\mathrm{b\overline{b}q\overline{q}'}\ell\nu$ channel with the CMS detector is presented. The analysis uses data collected during Run 2 of the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Background is suppressed by reconstructing the full $\mathrm{HH}$ decay chain using jet substructure techniques and the identification of leptons with nearby, boosted jets. A two-dimensional template fit in the plane of resonance the mass and the $\mathrm{H}\rightarrow\mathrm{b\overline{b}}$ mass is used to characterize potential signal with this final state.