Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.035007
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0010813, DE-SC0011095]
- Qatar National Research Foundation [NPRP9-328-1-066]
- People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013]
- REA Grant [PIEF-GA-2013-625809]
- European Research Council under the European Unions Horizon program (ERC Grant) [648680 DARKHORIZONS]
- European Commission through the HiggsTools Initial Training Network [PITN-GA-2012-316704]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0010813] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G000905/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G000905/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We analyze the prospects for resonant di-Higgs production searches at the LHC in the b (b) over barW(+)W(-) (W+ -> l(+)nu(l), W- -> l(-)(nu) over bar (l)) channel, as a probe of the nature of the electroweak phase transition in Higgs portal extensions of the Standard Model. In order to maximize the sensitivity in this final state, we develop a new algorithm for the reconstruction of the b (b) over barW(+)W(-) invariant mass in the presence of neutrinos from the W decays, building from a technique developed for the reconstruction of resonances decaying to tau(+) tau(-) pairs. We show that resonant di-Higgs production in the b (b) over barW(+)W(-) channel could be a competitive probe of the electroweak phase transition already with the data sets to be collected by the CMS and ATLAS experiments in run 2 of the LHC. The increase in sensitivity with larger amounts of data accumulated during the high-luminosity LHC phase can be sufficient to enable a potential discovery of the resonant di-Higgs production in this channel.
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