Measurement of boosted Higgs bosons produced via vector boson fusion or gluon fusion in the H $\to$ $\mathrm{b}\bar{\mathrm{b}}$ decay mode using LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

Abstract

A measurement is performed of Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) via vector boson or gluon fusion in proton-proton collisions. The result is based on a data set with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected in 2016-2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb${}^{-1}$. The decay of a high-$p_{\mathrm{T}}$ Higgs boson to a boosted bottom quark-antiquark pair is selected using large-radius jets and employing jet substructure and heavy-flavor taggers based on machine learning techniques. Independent regions targeting the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms are defined based on the topology of two quark-initiated jets with large pseudorapidity separation. The signal strengths for both processes are extracted simultaneously by performing a maximum likelihood fit to data in the large-radius jet mass distribution. The observed signal strengths relative to the standard model expectation are 4.9 ${}_{-1.6}^{+1.9}$ and 1.6 ${}_{-1.5}^{+1.7}$ for the vector boson and gluon fusion mechanisms, respectively. A differential cross section measurement is also reported in the simplified template cross section framework.

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