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Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from ZZ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector
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SYSNO ASEP 0579141 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from ZZ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector Author(s) Aad, G. (FR)
Abbott, B. (US)
Abeling, K. (DE)
Chudoba, Jiří (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Federičová, Pavla (FZU-D) ORCID
Hejbal, Jiří (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Jačka, Petr (FZU-D) ORCID
Kepka, Oldřich (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Kroll, Jiří (FZU-D) ORCID
Kupčo, Alexander (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Latoňová, Věra (FZU-D) ORCID
Lokajíček, Miloš (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Lysák, Roman (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Marčišovský, Michal (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Mikeštíková, Marcela (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Němeček, Stanislav (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Šícho, Petr (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Staroba, Pavel (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Svatoš, Michal (FZU-D) RID, ORCID
Taševský, Marek (FZU-D) RID, ORCIDNumber of authors 2835 Article number 138223 Source Title Physics Letters. B. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0370-2693
Roč. 846, Nov (2023)Number of pages 29 s. Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords underlying event ; Higgs particle: width ; p p: scattering ; Z0: pair production Subject RIV BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics OECD category Particles and field physics Research Infrastructure CERN-CZ III - 90240 - Fyzikální ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Method of publishing Open access Institutional support FZU-D - RVO:68378271 UT WOS 001125380300001 EID SCOPUS 85174896283 DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138223 Annotation This Letter reports on a search for off-shell production of the Higgs boson using 139 fb−1 of pp collision data at s= 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The signature is a pair of Z bosons, with contributions from both the production and subsequent decay of a virtual Higgs boson and the interference of that process with other processes. The two observable final states are ZZ→4ℓ and ZZ→2ℓ2ν with ℓ=e or μ. In the ZZ→4ℓ final state, a dense Neural Network is used to enhance analysis sensitivity with respect to matrix element-based discrimination. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with an observed (expected) significance of 3.3 (2.2) standard deviations, representing experimental evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production. Assuming that no new particles enter the production of the virtual Higgs boson, its total width can be deduced from the measurement of its off-shell production cross-section.
Workplace Institute of Physics Contact Kristina Potocká, potocka@fzu.cz, Tel.: 220 318 579 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348021
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