Measurement of the production cross section for a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson in the H→WW∗→ℓνℓν channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

0520616 - FZÚ 2020 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Aaboud, M. - Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Jačka, Petr - Jakoubek, Tomáš - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2944 authors
Measurement of the production cross section for a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson in the H→WW∗→ℓνℓν channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 798, Nov (2019), s. 1-24, č. článku 134949. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LM2015058
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN LHC Coll * channel cross section: branching ratio: measured * vector boson: associated production
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 4.384, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access

A measurement of the Higgs boson production cross sections via associated WH and ZH production using H→WW⁎→ℓνℓν decays, where ℓ stands for either an electron or a muon, is presented. Results for combined WH and ZH production are also presented. The analysis uses events produced in proton–proton collisions collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb−1 recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The products of the H→WW⁎ branching fraction times the WH and ZH cross sections are measured to be 0.67−0.27+0.31 (stat.) −0.14+0.18 (syst.) pb and 0.54−0.24+0.31 (stat.) −0.07+0.15 (syst.) pb respectively, in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.

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