Sensitivity on Two-Higgs-Doublet Models from Higgs-Pair Production via $b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ Final State

Abstract

Higgs boson pair production is well known to probe the structure of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. We illustrate using the gluon-fusion process $pp\to H\to hh\to (b\bar{b})(b\bar{b})$ in the framework of two-Higgs-doublet models and how the machine learning approach (three-stream convolutional neural network) can substantially improve the signal-background discrimination and thus improves the sensitivity coverage of the relevant parameter space. We show that such $gg\to hh\to b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ process can further probe the currently allowed parameter space by HiggsSignals and HiggsBounds at the HL-LHC. The results for Types I to IV are shown.

Comments: 25 pages, 8 figures