Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

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A search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks is performed in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC.

• The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$.
• The signal is characterized by a large missing transverse momentum recoiling against a bottom quark-antiquark system that has a large Lorentz boost.
• The number of events observed in the data is consistent with the standard model background prediction.