https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13021-z
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Search for 
and 
production in the 
final state using proton-proton collisions at 
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria
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Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7 D, Arica, Chile
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Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
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State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China
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Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
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Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
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University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia
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University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia
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Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt
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Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
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Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I ), Villeurbanne, France
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece
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HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
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Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India
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National Institute of Science Education and Research, An OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Università di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Firenze, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Napoli, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Naples, Italy; Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM), Naples, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy; Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Perugia, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Università di Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Trieste, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Department of Mathematics and Physics-GWNU, Gangneung, Korea
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Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea
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Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
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Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Department of Physics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
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Sejong University, Seoul, Korea
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Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
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Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Dasman, Kuwait
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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University of Latvia (LU), Riga, Latvia
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Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico
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Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
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Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Krakow, Poland
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland
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Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisbon, Portugal
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Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Department of Physics, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
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High Energy Physics Research Unit, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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National Science Centre, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, USA
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Purdue University, Indiana, WL, USA
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Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USA
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Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Texas A &M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Authors Affiliated with an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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UFMS, Nova Andradina, Brazil
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Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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China Center of Advanced Science and Technology, Beijing, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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China Spallation Neutron Source, Guangdong, China
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Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Suez University, Suez, Egypt
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British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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The University of the State of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Wuppertal, Germany
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Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
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Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Universitatea Babes-Bolyai-Facultatea de Fizica, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
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Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
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Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Mesra, India
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IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
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Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran
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Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy
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Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e di Struttura Della Materia, Catania, Italy
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Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy
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Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Perugia, Italy
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Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico City, Mexico
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Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Nilaveli, Sri Lanka
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Saegis Campus, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, IN2P3-CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Research Center of Experimental Health Science, Near East University, Mersin, Turkey
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Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey
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Izmir Bakircay University, Izmir, Turkey
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Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey
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Bozok Universitetesi Rektörlügü, Yozgat, Turkey
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Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Milli Savunma University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
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Istanbul Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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IPPP Durham University, Durham, UK
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Faculty of Science, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
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Bingol University, Bingol, Turkey
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey
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Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania
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an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Texas A &M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Another Institute or International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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cms-publication-committee-chair@cern.ch
Received:
29
March
2024
Accepted:
11
June
2024
Published online:
19
July
2024
A search for and production in the final state is presented, where H is the standard model (SM) Higgs boson. The search uses an event sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 133
collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13
with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The analysis introduces several novel techniques for deriving and validating a multi-dimensional background model based on control samples in data. A multiclass multivariate classifier customized for the final state is developed to derive the background model and extract the signal. The data are found to be consistent, within uncertainties, with the SM predictions. The observed (expected) upper limits at 95% confidence level are found to be 3.8 (3.8) and 5.0 (2.9) times the SM prediction for the and production cross sections, respectively.
Deceased: M. Narain, S. Wimpenny, A. Vorobyev.
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