CMS
PRELIMINARY
BEYOND SM
Search for the Higgs boson decay to a pair of electrons in proton-proton collisions at \sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}
A search is presented for the Higgs boson decay to a pair of electrons in proton-proton collisions at \sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}. The data set was collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC between 2016 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}. The analysis uses event categories targeting Higgs boson production via gluon-fusion and vector boson fusion. An upper limit on the Higgs boson branching fraction to an electron pair is determined as ( expected) at the confidence level. This is the most stringent limit on the Higgs boson branching fraction to a pair of electrons to date.