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We consider triple Higgs boson production at a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider. We perform a survey of viable final states and compare and contrast triple production to Higgs boson pair production. Focussing on the \( hhh\to \left(b\overline{b}\right)\left(b\overline{b}\right)\left(\gamma \gamma \right) \) final state, we construct a baseline analysis for the Standard Model scenario and simple deformations, demonstrating that the process merits investigation in the high-luminosity phase of the future collider as a new probe of the self-coupling sector of the Higgs boson.
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Papaefstathiou, A., Sakurai, K. Triple Higgs boson production at a 100 TeV proton-proton collider. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 6 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)006
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