Measurements of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks from vector boson fusion production with the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV

0548992 - FZÚ 2022 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abbott, D.C. - Chudoba, Jiří - Hejbal, Jiří - Hladík, Ondřej - Jačka, Petr - Kepka, Oldřich - Kroll, Jiří - Kupčo, Alexander - Latoňová, Věra - Lokajíček, Miloš - Lysák, Roman - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Němeček, Stanislav - Penc, Ondřej - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek … Total 2835 authors
Measurements of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks from vector boson fusion production with the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV.
European Physical Journal C. Roč. 81, č. 6 (2021), č. článku 537. ISSN 1434-6044. E-ISSN 1434-6052
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : ATLAS * CERN LHC Coll * neural network * background
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 4.994, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access

The paper presents a measurement of the Standard Model Higgs Boson decaying to b-quark pairs in the vector boson fusion (VBF) production mode. A sample corresponding to 126 fb−1hbox {fb}^{-1}fb−1 of s=13 TeVsqrt{s} = 13, ext {TeV}s ​=13TeV proton–proton collision data, collected with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, is analyzed utilizing an adversarial neural network for event classification. The signal strength, defined as the ratio of the measured signal yield to that predicted by the Standard Model for VBF Higgs production, is measured to be 0.95−0.36+0.380.95^{+0.38}_{-0.36}0.95−0.36+0.38​ , corresponding to an observed (expected) significance of 2.6 (2.8) standard deviations from the background only hypothesis. The results are additionally combined with an analysis of Higgs bosons decaying to b-quarks, produced via VBF in association with a photon.

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