https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15360-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Observing double Higgs production at the LHC via neutrino feature engineering in 
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Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, 09972-270, Diadema, SP, Brazil
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Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, UFABC, 09210-580, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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Departamento de Física do Estado Sólido, Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA, 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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Received:
24
September
2025
Accepted:
25
January
2026
Published online:
8
February
2026
Abstract
Double Higgs production is challenging even at the High Luminosity LHC. The Standard Model (SM) 
has a moderate cross section compared to other decay modes, but its backgrounds, mainly top quark pairs, are overwhelming. In this work, we propose new kinematic features designed to improve the discrimination of double Higgs pairs, in the 
channel, with cut-based and multivariate analyses. The new features are built with the neutrinos’ momenta solutions obtained from imposing mass constraints when calculating Higgsness and Topness variables. For the SM hh production, we estimate a 
statistical significance from an optimized cut-based strategy, improving about 20% over the best estimates of the literature, and 
from a multivariate analysis if systematic uncertainties on the backgrounds are small at the 14 TeV HL-LHC after 3000 
. The new variables are constructed as ratios of kinematic functions of the particles’ momenta, being less prone to systematic errors. We also demonstrate the usefulness of the solutions in reconstructing heavy scalar resonances and other variables of phenomenological importance.
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