Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector



Aaboud, M, Collaboration, ATLAS, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2886 more authors) (2018) Measurements of Higgs boson properties in the diphoton decay channel with 36 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 98 (5). 052005-.

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Abstract

Properties of the Higgs boson are measured in the two-photon final state using 36.1     fb − 1 of proton–proton collision data recorded at √ s = 13     TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Cross-section measurements for the production of a Higgs boson through gluon–gluon fusion, vector-boson fusion, and in association with a vector boson or a top-quark pair are reported. The signal strength, defined as the ratio of the observed to the expected signal yield, is measured for each of these production processes as well as inclusively. The global signal strength measurement of 0.99 ± 0.14 improves on the precision of the ATLAS measurement at √ s = 7 and 8 TeV by a factor of two. Measurements of gluon–gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion productions yield signal strengths compatible with the Standard Model prediction. Measurements of simplified template cross sections, designed to quantify the different Higgs boson production processes in specific regions of phase space, are reported. The cross section for the production of the Higgs boson decaying to two isolated photons in a fiducial region closely matching the experimental selection of the photons is measured to be 55 ± 10     fb , which is in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 64 ± 2     fb . Furthermore, cross sections in fiducial regions enriched in Higgs boson production in vector-boson fusion or in association with large missing transverse momentum, leptons or top-quark pairs are reported. Differential and double-differential measurements are performed for several variables related to the diphoton kinematics as well as the kinematics and multiplicity of the jets produced in association with a Higgs boson. These differential cross sections are sensitive to higher order QCD corrections and properties of the Higgs boson, such as its spin and C P quantum numbers. No significant deviations from a wide array of Standard Model predictions are observed. Finally, the strength and tensor structure of the Higgs boson interactions are investigated using an effective Lagrangian, which introduces additional C P -even and C P -odd interactions. No significant new physics contributions are observed.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 136 pages in total, author list starting page 119, 43 figures, 34 tables, published in Physical Review D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2016-21/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Higgs bosons, Photons
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2018 15:19
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:19
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.052005
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3026054