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2026 article

Improved analysis of non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the $b\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^-$ final state with $196$ fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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A search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production ($HH$) in the $b\bar{b}\tau^+\tau^-$ final state is performed using 140 fb$^{-1}$ and 56 fb$^{-1}$ of proton--proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV and 13.6 TeV, respectively, recorded by the ATLAS detector during 2015--2023 at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Relative to the previous ATLAS searches in the same final state, the analysis benefits from the additional dataset collected at 13.6 TeV and from improvements in both event reconstruction and analysis techniques. The Higgs boson pair production cross-section divided by the Standard Model (SM) prediction is found to be $\mu_{HH}= 2.6^{+1.4}_{-1.0}$, consistent with the SM expectation. This corresponds to an observed (expected) significance of $2.6$ ($1.2$) standard deviations over the background-only hypothesis of no $HH$ production and 1.65 standard deviations with respect to the SM prediction. Under the assumption that all other Higgs boson couplings take their SM values, the observed (expected) 95% confidence level interval for the Higgs boson self-coupling modifier is found to be $\kappa_\lambda \in [-3.4, 1.6] \cup [5.5, 10.1]$ ($\kappa_\lambda \in[-1.7, 8.5]$). As a validation of the analysis strategy, measurements of the $ZH$ and $ZZ$ processes are performed in the same final state using the same event selection, yielding observed (expected) significances of 3.5 (2.4) and 1.8 (2.7) standard deviations, respectively, relative to the background-only prediction.

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Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesParticle Detector Development and PerformanceHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research

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