Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks

International audienceA search for nonresonant Higgs boson (H) pair production via gluon and vector boson (V) fusion is performed in the four-bottom-quark final state, using proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV corresponding to 138  fb-1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis targets Lorentz-boosted H pairs identified using a graph neural network. It constrains the strengths relative to the standard model of the H self-coupling and the quartic VVHH couplings, κ2V, excluding κ2V=0 for the first time, with a significance of 6.3 standard deviations when other H couplings are fixed to their standard model values

Azimuthal correlations in Z plus jets events in proton-proton collisions at √s=13TeV

The production of Z bosons associated with jets is measured in pp collisions at s=13TeV with data recorded with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb-1 . The multiplicity of jets with transverse momentum pT>30GeV is measured for different regions of the Z boson’s pT(Z) , from lower than 10 GeV to higher than 100 GeV . The azimuthal correlation Δφ between the Z boson and the leading jet, as well as the correlations between the two leading jets are measured in three regions of pT(Z) . The measurements are compared with several predictions at leading and next-to-leading orders, interfaced with parton showers. Predictions based on transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions and corresponding parton showers give a good description of the measurement in the regions where multiple parton interactions and higher jet multiplicities are not important. The effects of multiple parton interactions are shown to be important to correctly describe the measured spectra in the low pT(Z) regions

Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at 1a<i>s</i>=13 TeV

Abstract: Multijet events at large transverse momentum (p(T)) are measured at root s = 13 TeV using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb(-1). The multiplicity of jets with p(T) > 50 GeV that are produced in association with a high-p(T) dijet system is measured in various ranges of the p(T) of the jet with the highest transverse momentum and as a function of the azimuthal angle difference Delta phi(1,2) between the two highest p(T) jets in the dijet system. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the four highest p(T) jets. The measurements are compared with leading and next-to-leading order matrix element calculations supplemented with simulations of parton shower, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. In addition, the measurements are compared with next-to-leading order matrix element calculations combined with transverse-momentum dependent parton densities and transverse-momentum dependent parton shower

Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Multijet events at large transverse momentum (p(T)) are measured at root s = 13 TeV using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb(-1). The multiplicity of jets with p(T) > 50 GeV that are produced in association with a high-p(T) dijet system is measured in various ranges of the p(T) of the jet with the highest transverse momentum and as a function of the azimuthal angle difference Delta phi(1,2) between the two highest p(T) jets in the dijet system. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the four highest p(T) jets. The measurements are compared with leading and next-to-leading order matrix element calculations supplemented with simulations of parton shower, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. In addition, the measurements are compared with next-to-leading order matrix element calculations combined with transverse-momentum dependent parton densities and transverse-momentum dependent parton shower

Measurements of jet multiplicity and jet transverse momentum in multijet events in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV{\sqrt{s}=13\, \text {TeV}} s = 13 TeV

Abstract Multijet events at large transverse momentum ( $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T ) are measured at $$\sqrt{s}=13\,\text {Te\hspace{-.08em}V}$$ s = 13 Te V using data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $$36.3{\,\text {fb}^{-1}}$$ 36.3 fb - 1 . The multiplicity of jets with $$p_{\textrm{T}} >50\,\text {Ge\hspace{-.08em}V}$$ p T > 50 Ge V that are produced in association with a high- $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T dijet system is measured in various ranges of the $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T of the jet with the highest transverse momentum and as a function of the azimuthal angle difference $$\varDelta \phi _{1,2}$$ Δ ϕ 1 , 2 between the two highest $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T jets in the dijet system. The differential production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the four highest $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T jets. The measurements are compared with leading and next-to-leading order matrix element calculations supplemented with simulations of parton shower, hadronization, and multiparton interactions. In addition, the measurements are compared with next-to-leading order matrix element calculations combined with transverse-momentum dependent parton densities and transverse-momentum dependent parton shower