<p>The non-resonant production of a Higgs boson pair in association with a top-antitop quark pair <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mfenced close=")" open="("> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">pp</mi> <mo>→</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mover accent="true"> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="true">¯</mo> </mover> <mi mathvariant="italic">hh</mi> </mrow> </mfenced> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( \left( pp\to t\overline{t} hh\right) \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> has only recently begun to be explored at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and provides a unique and largely uncharted probe of the top-Higgs sector, offering complementary sensitivity to the Higgs self-coupling and higher-dimensional interactions beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we present a detailed study of this process within the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A comparative analysis is performed using a traditional cut-based approach in the single-lepton channel and a multivariate parametric boosted decision tree method in both single-lepton and dilepton final states. We derive one- and two-parameter limits at 95% confidence level on the HEFT couplings <i>δκ</i><sub><i>λ</i></sub>, <i>c</i><sub>2</sub>, <i>c</i><sub>2<i>g</i></sub>, <i>c</i><sub><i>tg</i></sub>, and <i>c</i><sub><i>tg</i>2</sub>. The projected bound on <i>δκ</i><sub><i>λ</i></sub> is weaker than current experimental constraints from dedicated Higgs-pair measurement; however, this coupling plays a critical role in shaping the multidimensional allowed parameter space. For the remaining HEFT couplings, where no direct experimental limits currently exist, our results provide the first sensitivity projections in the <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mi>t</mi> <mover accent="true"> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="true">¯</mo> </mover> <mi mathvariant="italic">hh</mi> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( t\overline{t} hh \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> channel. Overall, this study demonstrates the strong potential of the <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mi>t</mi> <mover accent="true"> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="true">¯</mo> </mover> <mi mathvariant="italic">hh</mi> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( t\overline{t} hh \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> production process to probe extended Higgs and top-quark interactions beyond the Standard Model through the exploitation of the <InlineEquation ID="IEq5"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mi>t</mi> <mover accent="true"> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="true">¯</mo> </mover> <mi mathvariant="italic">hh</mi> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( t\overline{t} hh \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> data at the HL-LHC.</p>

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Exploring Higgs EFT in \( t\overline{t} hh \) at high luminosity LHC

  • Ricardo D’Elia Matheus,
  • Oscar J. P. Éboli,
  • Rafiqul Rahaman,
  • Aurore Savoy Navarro

摘要

The non-resonant production of a Higgs boson pair in association with a top-antitop quark pair pp t t ¯ hh \( \left( pp\to t\overline{t} hh\right) \) has only recently begun to be explored at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and provides a unique and largely uncharted probe of the top-Higgs sector, offering complementary sensitivity to the Higgs self-coupling and higher-dimensional interactions beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we present a detailed study of this process within the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A comparative analysis is performed using a traditional cut-based approach in the single-lepton channel and a multivariate parametric boosted decision tree method in both single-lepton and dilepton final states. We derive one- and two-parameter limits at 95% confidence level on the HEFT couplings δκλ, c2, c2g, ctg, and ctg2. The projected bound on δκλ is weaker than current experimental constraints from dedicated Higgs-pair measurement; however, this coupling plays a critical role in shaping the multidimensional allowed parameter space. For the remaining HEFT couplings, where no direct experimental limits currently exist, our results provide the first sensitivity projections in the t t ¯ hh \( t\overline{t} hh \) channel. Overall, this study demonstrates the strong potential of the t t ¯ hh \( t\overline{t} hh \) production process to probe extended Higgs and top-quark interactions beyond the Standard Model through the exploitation of the t t ¯ hh \( t\overline{t} hh \) data at the HL-LHC.