Speaker
Dr
Nathan Hartland
(Oxford)
Description
The measurement of Higgs pair production will be a cornerstone of the LHC program in the coming years. Double Higgs production provides a crucial window upon the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and has a unique sensitivity to the Higgs trilinear coupling. We study the feasibility of a measurement of Higgs pair production in the b ̄bb ̄b final state at the LHC. Our analysis is based on a combination of traditional cut- based methods with state-of-the-art multivariate techniques. We account for all relevant backgrounds, including the contributions from light and charm jet mis-identification, which are ultimately comparable in size to the irreducible 4b QCD background. We demonstrate the robustness of our analysis strategy in a high pileup environment. For an integrated luminosity of L = 3 ab−1, a signal significance of S/√B ≃ 3 is obtained, indicating that the b ̄bb ̄b final state alone could allow for the observation of double Higgs production at the High Luminosity LHC.
Primary author
Dr
Nathan Hartland
(Oxford)
