Sensitivity on Two-Higgs-Doublet Models from Higgs-Pair Production via $b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ Final State

Abstract

Higgs boson pair production is well known to probe the structure of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. We illustrate using the gluon-fusion process $pp \to H \to h h \to (b\bar b) (b\bar b)$ in the framework of two-Higgs-doublet models and how the machine learning approach (three-stream convolutional neural network) can substantially improve the signal-background discrimination and thus improves the sensitivity coverage of the relevant parameter space. We show that such $gg \to hh \to b \bar b b\bar b$ process can further probe the currently allowed parameter space by HiggsSignals and HiggsBounds at the HL-LHC. The results for Types I to IV are shown.