Search for higgs boson decay to a charm quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at √&lt;em&gt;s&lt;/em&gt; = 13  TeV

Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J.W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Damanakis, K.; Dragicevic, M.; Escalante Del Valle, A.; Hussain, P.S.; Jeitler, M.; Caminada, L.; Ebrahimi, A.; Erdmann, W.; Horisberger, R.; Ingram, Q.; Kaestli, H.C.; Kotlinski, D.; Lange, C.; Missiroli, M.; Noehte, L.; Rohe, T.; Zhokin, A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.061801

Search for higgs boson decay to a charm quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Bergauer T, Chatterjee S, Damanakis K, Dragicevic M, Escalante Del Valle A, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Caminada L, Ebrahimi A, Erdmann W, Horisberger R, Ingram Q, Kaestli HC, Kotlinski D, Lange C, Missiroli M, Noehte L, Rohe T, Zhokin A, et al.

Citation

Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., … Zhokin, A. (2023). Search for higgs boson decay to a charm quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 131(6), 061801 (21 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.061801

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A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a charm quark-antiquark pair, H → cc¯, produced in association with a leptonically decaying V (W or Z) boson is presented. The search is performed with proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb^-1. Novel charm jet identification and analysis methods using machine learning techniques are employed. The analysis is validated by searching for Z → cc¯ in VZ events, leading to its first observation at a hadron collider with a significance of 5.7 standard deviations. The observed (expected) upper limit on σ(VH)B(H → cc¯) is 0.94 (0.50_-0.15^+0.22)pb at 95% confidence level (C.L.), corresponding to 14 (7.6_-2.3^+3.4) times the standard model prediction. For the Higgs-charm Yukawa coupling modifier, κ_c, the observed (expected) 95% C.L. interval is 1.1 < |κ_c|<5.5 (|κ_c|<3.4), the most stringent constraint to date.