aLaboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Energies,

We construct a simple model of the Double Drell–Yan Process (DDYP) for proton–proton collisions and investigate its possible contribution to the back-ground for the Higgs-boson searches at the LHC. We demonstrate that under the assumption of the predominance of short range, O(0.1) fm, transverse-plane correlations of quark–antiquark pairs within the proton this contribu-tion becomes important and may even explain the observed excess of the four-lepton events at the LHC – the events interpreted as originating from the Higgs-boson decays: H → ZZ ∗ → 4l and H → WW ∗ → 2l2ν