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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 98: Higgs Physics X

T 98.5: Talk

Friday, March 20, 2026, 10:00–10:15, KH 02.013

Investigation of a boosted event topology in the search for the Higgs boson decay to a charm-anticharm pair in vector boson associated production mode at CMS in Run 3 — •Patrick Kersten, Alexander Schmidt, Andrey Pozdnyakov, Valentyn Vaulin, Pedro Gouveia Pinto Da Costa, Ishmeet Kaur Vohra, Jan Terörde, and Arnd Meyer — III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University

The search for the Higgs boson decay into a charm-anticharm pair in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson is an important contribution to the aim of measuring the Higgs boson coupling to charm quarks. In addition to the so-called "resolved" event topology, the topology with highly energetic Higgs boson decays, resulting in a boosted event topology is explored. The potential improvement on the analysis sensitivity when adding the boosted topology is investigated. This talk presents the first expected results using early Run-3 data recorded by the CMS experiment focusing on the preliminary expected limits on the Higgs-charm coupling.

Keywords: Higgs; Charm; VH(cc); Run 3; CMS