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Summary

Résumé

Acknowledgments

TOC

Introduction

Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Standard Model and Beyond

The Standard Model of Particle Physics

The Building Blocks of the SM

From Symmetries to Interactions

The Higgs Mechanism

Phenomenology and Experimental Status of Higgs Boson Physics

Higgs Boson Pair Phenomenology in the SM

Production Modes

Final States

Going Beyond the SM

SM shortcomings

Non-resonant BSM HH Production

Resonant BSM HH Production

Experimental Status of HH Physics

Direct Searches

Indirect Searches

Combining Direct with Indirect Searches

The CMS Detector at the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider

Design

Operations

Experiments

The CMS Detector

Coordinate system

Detector Structure

The CMS Trigger System

Offline Reconstruction

MC Generation and Data Processing

Reconstruction of Trigger Primitives for the HGCAL Level-1 Trigger

The High Luminosity LHC

The High Granularity Calorimeter and Other Detector Upgrades

Detector Upgrades in CMS

The CMS Phase-2 Trigger System

The High Granularity Calorimeter

Detector Upgrades in Other LHC Experiments

The Reconstruction of Trigger Primitives in HGCAL

Development of a Simplified HGCAL Geometry and Event Processing Chain

Cluster Splitting

Discussion and Future Directions

Resonant Search for \hhbbtt{}: Setting the Stage

Samples

Triggers

Legacy Triggers

Additional Triggers

Trigger Regions

A Note on the Inclusion Method

Physics Objects

Selection and Categorization

Mass Regression of the Tau Lepton Pair

Modeling of Background Processes

Monte Carlo Corrections

Binned Distributions

Resonant Search for \hhbbtt{}: Extracting the Limits

Signal Extraction

Systematic Uncertainties

Normalization Uncertainties

Shape Uncertainties

Statistical Treatment

Hypothesis Testing

The Neyman-Pearson Lemma

The Maximum Likelihood Method

Finding a Signal in HEP Experiments

Expected and Observed Limits

Results

Exclusion Limits

Comparison with Other Results

Prospects for HH Searches

Going Beyond the Narrow Width Approximation in HH Resonant Searches

The Stability of the Electroweak Vacuum

The Singlet Model

Methodology

Results

Conclusion

APPENDIX OPTIONS

Appendices

Summary of ATLAS Results on Higgs Boson Pair Production

Final Results in Table Format

Fraction of Muons with Large Transverse Momentum

Additional Plots on MET Scale Factors

B, C and D distributions for the ABCD Method

List of acronyms

Bibliography

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