Abstract
Higgs boson production via gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion in proton-proton collisions is measured in the H → W W * → e ν μ ν decay channel. The Large Hadron Collider delivered proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV between 2015 and 2018, which were recorded by the ATLAS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb - 1 . The total cross sections for Higgs boson production by gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion times the H → W W * branching ratio are measured to be 12.0 ± 1.4 and 0.75 - 0.16 + 0.19 pb , respectively, in agreement with the Standard Model predictions of 10.4 ± 0.6 and 0.81 ± 0.02 pb . Higgs boson production is further characterized through measurements of Simplified Template Cross Sections in a total of 11 kinematic fiducial regions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 032005 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2023 |
Funding
We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT (Argentina); YerPhI (Armenia); ARC (Australia); BMWFW and FWF (Austria); ANAS (Azerbaijan); CNPq and FAPESP (Brazil); NSERC, NRC, and CFI (Canada); CERN; ANID (Chile); CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); Minciencias (Colombia); MEYS CR (Czech Republic); DNRF and DNSRC (Denmark); IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU (France); SRNSFG (Georgia); BMBF, HGF, and MPG (Germany); GSRI (Greece); RGC and Hong Kong SAR (China); ISF and Benoziyo Center (Israel); INFN (Italy); MEXT and JSPS (Japan); CNRST (Morocco); NWO (Netherlands); RCN (Norway); MEiN (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MNE/IFA (Romania); MESTD (Serbia); MSSR (Slovakia); ARRS and MIZŠ (Slovenia); DSI/NRF (South Africa); MICINN (Spain); SRC and Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden); SERI, SNSF, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva (Switzerland); MOST (Taiwan); TENMAK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); and DOE and NSF (USA). In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC (Canada); PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013 (Czech Republic); COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Union); Investissements d’Avenir Labex, Investissements d’Avenir Idex, and ANR (France); DFG and AvH Foundation (Germany); Herakleitos, Thales, and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF (Greece); BSF-NSF and MINERVA (Israel); Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (Norway); NCN and NAWA (Poland); La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana (Spain); Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse (Sweden); The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom). The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (United Kingdom) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide, and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [132]. We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT (Argentina); YerPhI (Armenia); ARC (Australia); BMWFW and FWF (Austria); ANAS (Azerbaijan); CNPq and FAPESP (Brazil); NSERC, NRC, and CFI (Canada); CERN; ANID (Chile); CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); Minciencias (Colombia); MEYS CR (Czech Republic); DNRF and DNSRC (Denmark); IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU (France); SRNSFG (Georgia); BMBF, HGF, and MPG (Germany); GSRI (Greece); RGC and Hong Kong SAR (China); ISF and Benoziyo Center (Israel); INFN (Italy); MEXT and JSPS (Japan); CNRST (Morocco); NWO (Netherlands); RCN (Norway); MEiN (Poland); FCT (Portugal); MNE/IFA (Romania); MESTD (Serbia); MSSR (Slovakia); ARRS and MIZŠ (Slovenia); DSI/NRF (South Africa); MICINN (Spain); SRC and Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden); SERI, SNSF, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva (Switzerland); MOST (Taiwan); TENMAK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); and DOE and NSF (USA). In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC (Canada); PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013 (Czech Republic); COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Union); Investissements d’Avenir Labex, Investissements d’Avenir Idex, and ANR (France); DFG and AvH Foundation (Germany); Herakleitos, Thales, and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF (Greece); BSF-NSF and MINERVA (Israel); Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (Norway); NCN and NAWA (Poland); La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana (Spain); Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse (Sweden); The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom). The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (United Kingdom) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide, and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. .