Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW∗ with the ATLAS detector

We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to WW∗ based on an excess over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. Evidence for the vector-boson fusion (VBF) production process is obtained with a signific...

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Autores: Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Otero y Garzon, Gustavo Javier, Piegaia, Ricardo Nestor, Sacerdoti, Sabrina, Reisin, Hernan Diego, Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Anduaga, Xabier Sebastian, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Dova, Maria Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Wahlberg, Hernan Pablo, Zhukov, K., Zibell, A., Zieminska, D., Zimine, N. I., Zimmermann, C., Zimmermann, R., Zimmermann, S., Ziolkowski, M., Zobernig, G., Zoccoli, A., Nedden, M. zur, Zurzolo, G., Zutshi, V., Zwalinski, L., The ATLAS Collaboration
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/105104
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/105104
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:ATLAS
CERN
LHC
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Resumo:We report the observation of Higgs boson decays to WW∗ based on an excess over background of 6.1 standard deviations in the dilepton final state, where the Standard Model expectation is 5.8 standard deviations. Evidence for the vector-boson fusion (VBF) production process is obtained with a significance of 3.2 standard deviations. The results are obtained from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 25pb−1 from s√=7 and 8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. For a Higgs boson mass of 125.36 GeV, the ratio of the measured value to the expected value of the total production cross section times branching fraction is 1.09+0.16−0.15(stat.)+0.17−0.14(syst.). The corresponding ratios for the gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion production mechanisms are 1.02±0.19(stat.)+0.22−0.18(syst.) and 1.27+0.44−0.40(stat.)+0.30−0.21(syst.), respectively. At s√=8 TeV, the total production cross sections are measured to be σ(gg→H→WW∗)=4.6±0.9(stat.)+0.8−0.7(syst.)pb and σ(VBFH→WW∗)=0.51+0.17−0.15(stat.)+0.13−0.08(syst.)pb. The fiducial cross section is determined for the gluon-fusion process in exclusive final states with zero or one associated jet.

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