A search for decays of the Higgs boson to invisible particles in events with a top-antitop quark pair or a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V} $$
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A search for decays to invisible particles of Higgs bosons produced in association with a top-antitop quark pair or a vector boson, which both decay to a fully hadronic final state, has been performed using proton-proton collision data collected at $${\sqrt{s}=13,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V}}$$by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138$$,\text {fb}^{-1}$$. The 95% confidence level upper limit set on the branching fraction of the 125$$,\text {Ge}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V}$$Higgs boson to invisible particles, $${\mathcal {B}({\textrm{H}} \rightarrow \text {inv})}$$, is 0.54 (0.39 expected), assuming standard model production cross sections. The results of this analysis are combined with previous $${\mathcal {B}({\textrm{H}} \rightarrow \text {inv})}$$searches carried out at $${\sqrt{s}=7}$$, 8, and 13$$,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V}$$in complementary production modes. The combined upper limit at 95% confidence level on $${\mathcal {B}({\textrm{H}} \rightarrow \text {inv})}$$is 0.15 (0.08 expected).
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CMS Collaboration. (2023). A search for decays of the Higgs boson to invisible particles in events with a top-antitop quark pair or a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V} $$. The European Physical Journal C, 83(10), 933. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11952-7