Measurement of the inclusive and differential Higgs boson production cross sections in the leptonic WW decay mode at p √ s=13 TeV

Measurements of the fiducial inclusive and differential production cross sections of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at √ 8 = 13TeV are performed using events where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of W bosons that subsequently decay into a final state with an electron, a muon, and a p...

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Authors: Sirunyan, A.M., Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Iban|||0000-0002-0367-4022, Calderón Tazón, Alicia|||0000-0002-7205-2040, Chazin Quero, Bárbara, Duarte Campderros, Jorge|||0000-0003-0687-5214, Fernández García, Marcos|||0000-0002-4824-1087, Fernández Manteca, Pedro José|||0000-0003-2566-7496, García Alonso, Andrea, Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio|||0000-0002-1077-6553, Martínez Rivero, Celso, Martínez Ruiz del Árbol, Pablo|||0000-0002-7737-5121, Matorras Weinig, Francisco|||0000-0003-4295-5668, Piedra Gómez, Jonatan|||0000-0002-9157-1700, Prieëls, Cedric, Ricci-Tam, Francesca Shun-Ning Annarosa, Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa, Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto|||0000-0002-3639-0368, Russo, Lorenzo, Scodellaro, Luca|||0000-0002-4974-8330, Vila Álvarez, Iván |||0000-0002-6797-7209, Vizán García, Jesús Manuel|||0000-0002-6823-8854
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repository:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/24705
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/24705
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Higgs physics
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Summary:Measurements of the fiducial inclusive and differential production cross sections of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at √ 8 = 13TeV are performed using events where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of W bosons that subsequently decay into a final state with an electron, a muon, and a pair of neutrinos. The analysis is based on data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC during 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1. Production cross sections are measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the Higgs boson and the associated jet multiplicity. The Higgs boson signal is extracted and simultaneously unfolded to correct for selection efficiency and resolution effects using maximum-likelihood fits to the observed distributions in data. The integrated fiducial cross section is measured to be 86.5 ± 9.5 fb, consistent with the Standard Model expectation of 82.5 ± 4.2 fb. No significant deviation from the Standard Model expectations is observed in the differential measurements.