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A<sc>bstract</sc> The measurements of the Higgs boson (H) production cross sections performed by the CMS Collaboration in the four-lepton (4ℓ, ℓ= e,μ) final state at a center-of-mass energy$$\sqrt{s}$$= 13.6 TeV are presented. These measurements are based on data collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in 2022, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34.7 fb⁻¹. Cross sections are measured in a fiducial region closely matching the experimental acceptance, both inclusively and differentially, as a function of the transverse momentum and the absolute value of the rapidity of the four-lepton system. The H → ZZ → 4ℓinclusive fiducial cross section is measured to be$${2.89}_{-0.49}^{+0.53}{\left({\text{stat}}\right)}_{-0.21}^{+0.29}\left({\text{syst}}\right)$$fb, in agreement with the standard model expectation of$${3.09}_{-0.24}^{+0.27}$$fb. 

A measurement of the Higgs boson mass and width via its decay to two $Z$bosons is presented. Proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $138{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, is used. The invariant mass distribution of four leptons in the on-shell Higgs boson decay is used to measure its mass and constrain its width. This yields the most precise single measurement of the Higgs boson mass to date, $125.04\pm 0.12\mathrm{GeV}$, and an upper limit on the width ${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_H<330\mathrm{MeV}$at 95% confidence level. A combination of the on- and off-shell Higgs boson production decaying to four leptons is used to determine the Higgs boson width, assuming that no new virtual particles affect the production, a premise that is tested by adding new heavy particles in the gluon fusion loop model. This result is combined with a previous CMS analysis of the off-shell Higgs boson production with decay to two leptons and two neutrinos, giving a measured Higgs boson width of ${3.0}_{-1.5}^{+2.0}\mathrm{MeV}$, in agreement with the standard model prediction of 4.1 MeV. The strength of the off-shell Higgs boson production is also reported. The scenario of no off-shell Higgs boson production is excluded at a confidence level corresponding to 3.8 standard deviations. © 2025 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration2025CERN 

A<sc>bstract</sc> A search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionization energy loss within the silicon tracker of the CMS experiment is presented. A data set of proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy at$$ \sqrt{s} $$ $\sqrt{s}$= 13 TeV, collected in 2017 and 2018 at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb⁻¹, is used in this analysis. Two different approaches for the search are taken. A new method exploits the independence of the silicon pixel and strips measurements, while the second method improves on previous techniques using ionization to determine a mass selection. No significant excess of events above the background expectation is observed. The results are interpreted in the context of the pair production of supersymmetric particles, namely gluinos, top squarks, and tau sleptons, and of the Drell-Yan pair production of fourth generation (τ′) leptons with an electric charge equal to or twice the absolute value of the electron charge (e). An interpretation of a Z’ boson decaying to twoτ′ leptons with an electric charge equal to 2eis presented for the first time. The 95% confidence upper limits on the production cross section are extracted for each of these hypothetical particles. 

Abstract The Pixel Luminosity Telescope is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is located approximately 1.75 m from the interaction point and arranged into 16 “telescopes”, with eight telescopes installed around the beam pipe at either end of the detector and each telescope composed of three individual silicon sensor planes. The per-bunch instantaneous luminosity is measured by counting events where all three planes in the telescope register a hit, using a special readout at the full LHC bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz. The full pixel information is read out at a lower rate and can be used to determine calibrations, corrections, and systematic uncertainties for the online and offline measurements. This paper details the commissioning, operational history, and performance of the detector during Run 2 (2015–18) of the LHC, as well as preparations for Run 3, which will begin in 2022. 

Nuclear medium effects on $B^{+}$meson production are studied using the binary-collision scaled cross section ratio between events of different charged-particle multiplicities from proton-lead collisions. Data, collected by the CMS experiment in 2016 at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=8.16\mathrm{TeV}$, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $175{\mathrm{nb}}^{-1}$, were used. The scaling factors in the ratio are determined using a novel approach based on the $Z\to {\mu }^{-}{\mu }^{+}$cross sections measured in the same events. The scaled ratio for $B^{+}$is consistent with unity for all event multiplicities, putting stringent constraints on nuclear modification for heavy flavor. © 2025 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration2025CERN 

A<sc>bstract</sc> The production cross sections of$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$and B⁺mesons are reported in proton-proton (pp) collisions recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC with a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 302 pb⁻¹. The cross sections are based on measurements of the$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$→J/ψ(μ⁺μ⁻)ϕ(1020)(K⁺K⁻) and B⁺→J/ψ(μ⁺μ⁻)K⁺decay channels. Results are presented in the transverse momentum (p_T) range 7–50 GeV/cand the rapidity interval |y|<2.4 for the B mesons. The measuredp_T-differential cross sections of B⁺and$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$in pp collisions are well described by fixed-order plus next-to-leading logarithm perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. Using previous PbPb collision measurements at the same nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy, the nuclear modification factors,R_AA, of the B mesons are determined. Forp_T>10 GeV/c, both mesons are found to be suppressed in PbPb collisions (withR_AAvalues significantly below unity), with less suppression observed for the$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$mesons. In thisp_Trange, theR_AAvalues for the B⁺mesons are consistent with those for inclusive charged hadrons and D⁰mesons. Below 10 GeV/c, both B⁺and$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$are found to be less suppressed than either inclusive charged hadrons or D⁰mesons, with the$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$R_AAvalue consistent with unity. TheR_AAvalues found for the B⁺and$$ {\textrm{B}}_{\textrm{s}}^0 $$ $B_s^0$are compared to theoretical calculations, providing constraints on the mechanism of bottom quark energy loss and hadronization in the quark-gluon plasma, the hot and dense matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.