Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J. W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.Dragicevic, M.Özdemir, Kadri2025-03-202025-03-2020241029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2024)316https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/2518A search for a new boson X is presented using CERN LHC proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at root s = 13 TeV in 2016-2018, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). The resonance X decays into either a pair of Higgs bosons HH of mass 125 GeV or an H and a new spin-0 boson Y. One H subsequently decays to a pair of photons, and the second H or Y, to a pair of bottom quarks. The explored mass ranges of X are 260-1000 GeV and 300-1000 GeV, for decays to HH and to HY, respectively, with the Y mass range being 90-800 GeV. For a spin-0 X hypothesis, the 95% confidence level upper limit on the product of its production cross section and decay branching fraction is observed to be within 0.90-0.04 fb, depending on the masses of X and Y. The largest deviation from the background-only hypothesis with a local (global) significance of 3.8 (below 2.8) standard deviations is observed for X and Y masses of 650 and 90 GeV, respectively. The limits are interpreted using several models of new physics.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessB PhysicsHadron-Hadron ScatteringHiggs PhysicsPhoton ProductionArticle10.1007/JHEP05(2024)3165Q1WOS:0012882906000012-s2.0-85203830068Q1