Search for supersymmetry using Higgs boson to diphoton decays at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

Understand

A search for supersymmetry (SUSY) is presented where at least one Higgs boson is produced and decays to two photons in the decay chains of pair-produced SUSY particles.

• Two analysis strategies are pursued: one focused on strong SUSY production and the other focused on electroweak SUSY production.
• The presence of charged leptons, additional Higgs boson candidates, and various kinematic variables are used to categorize events into search regions that are sensitive to different SUSY scenarios.
• The results are based on data from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.5 fb$^{-1}$.