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Constraints on off-shell Higgs boson production and the Higgs boson total width in ZZ → 4ℓ and ZZ → 2ℓ2ν final states with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Bogazici University
  • Istanbul University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • University of Geneva
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • The University of Chicago

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Abstract

A measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the ZZ→4ℓ and ZZ→2ℓ2ν decay channels, where ℓ stands for either an electron or a muon, is performed using data from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV. The data were collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 and 2016 at the Large Hadron Collider, and they correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1fb−1. An observed (expected) upper limit on the off-shell Higgs signal strength, defined as the event yield normalised to the Standard Model prediction, of 3.8 (3.4) is obtained at 95% confidence level (CL). Assuming the ratio of the Higgs boson couplings to the Standard Model predictions is independent of the momentum transfer of the Higgs production mechanism considered in the analysis, a combination with the on-shell signal-strength measurements yields an observed (expected) 95% CL upper limit on the Higgs boson total width of 14.4 (15.2) MeV.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)223-244
Number of pages22
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume786
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 10 2018

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