Probing new physics in the Boosted $HH\to b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ channel at the LHC

Abstract

This paper presents the first dedicated study of the boosted $HH\to b\bar{b}\gamma \gamma$ topology as a key probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in the high-energy double-Higgs boson regime. The analysis presented in this paper, focuses on two classes of new-physics scenarios: non-resonant deviations of the quartic gauge--Higgs interaction, parameterized by the coupling modifier ${\kappa }_{2V}$, and resonant enhancement arising from the decay of a heavy scalar state, modeled within a two-Higgs-doublet framework. We demonstrate that the boosted reconstruction category enhances sensitivity to beyond SM effects that populate the high-$m_{HH}$ tail, yielding improved constraints on ${\kappa }_{2V}$ and extending the discovery reach for heavy resonances.

Comments: 18 pages