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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 30: Higgs decay in fermions II

T 30.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 16:30–16:45, Te

Search for decays of boosted Higgs bosons to pairs of charm quarks with the CMS Experiment — •Andrzej Novak, Luca Mastrolorenzo, Xavier Coubez, Spadan Mondal, and Andrey Pozdnyakov — RWTH Aachen

The Higgs boson decay into charm quarks has the highest branching fraction of the yet unobserved decays. Moreover, it is predicted to be the strongest coupling to the second generation of fermions which as of now remains unconfirmed. This talk presents a search for the Higgs boson in the gluon fusion production mode with high Lorentz boosts, decaying to a pair of charm quarks. The analysis is modeled on a previous analysis of decays to pairs of bottom quarks and is enabled by recent developments in deep learning based tools for jet identification in such topologies. Probing this channel is not only important for completeness, but it could also be sensitive to potential beyond Standard Model corrections.