Improving Di-Higgs Sensitivity at Future Colliders in Hadronic Final States with Machine Learning

arXiv

2203.07353

Date

2022-03-14

Frontier

Energy Frontier (EF)

Topical groups

• EF1
• CompF3

Submitted by

Sanmay Ganguly

Abstract

One of the central goals of the physics program at the future colliders is to elucidate the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking, including precision measurements of the Higgs sector. This includes a detailed study of Higgs boson (H) pair production, which can reveal the H self-coupling. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, a large campaign of measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson has begun and many new ideas have emerged during the completion of this program. One such idea is the use of highly boosted and merged hadronic decays of the Higgs boson ($\mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{b}\bar{\mathrm{b}}$, $\mathrm{H}\to \mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}\to \mathrm{q}\bar{\mathrm{q}}\mathrm{q}\bar{\mathrm{q}}$) with machine learning methods to improve the signal-to-background discrimination. In this white paper, we champion the use of these modes to boost the sensitivity of future collider physics programs to Higgs boson pair production, the Higgs self-coupling, and Higgs-vector boson couplings. We demonstrate the potential improvement possible thanks to use of graph neural networks.