Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J. W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Dragicevic, M.Del Valle, A. Escalante2024-07-182024-07-1820211029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)057https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7081A search for a heavy Higgs boson H decaying into the observed Higgs boson h with a mass of 125 GeV and another Higgs boson h(S) is presented. The h and h(S) bosons are required to decay into a pair of tau leptons and a pair of b quarks, respectively. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb(-1). Mass ranges of 240-3000 GeV for m(H) and 60-2800 GeV for m(hS) are explored in the search. No signal has been observed. Model independent 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process are set with a sensitivity ranging from 125 fb (for m(H) = 240 GeV) to 2.7 fb (for m(H) = 1000 GeV). These limits are compared to maximally allowed products of the production cross section and the branching fractions of the signal process in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHadron-Hadron Scattering (Experiments)Higgs PhysicsBroken SymmetriesExtensionProgramMassesWidthsModelArticle2-s2.0-8511936075410.1007/JHEP11(2021)05711Q2Q1WOS:000717994900001