Measurement of the inclusive and differential Higgs boson production cross sections in the leptonic WW decay mode at p root s=13 TeV
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Journal Article
Abstract
Measurements of the fiducial inclusive and differential production cross sections of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV 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.
Date Issued
2021-03-01
Date Acceptance
2021-01-19
Citation
The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, 2021 (3), pp.1-48
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Start Page
1
End Page
48
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2021
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Higgs physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 3
Date Publish Online
2021-03-01